396 : Miséellanies. 
Of the canal boat there are three models of different sizes of such 
as are used in conveying the articles of their produce, teas, salt, grain, 
and manufactured articles, to and from the distant points of the ex- 
tensive empire, and in loading and unloading foreign ships: They 
are remarkable for strength and durability. 
man-of-war boat.—These tidewaiters’ boats, ‘or cutters, are 
ene cruising about with the police officers, to keep order among 
the numerous residents on the water, and to enforce the revenue laws. 
The san-pans, or family boats, in which it is computed about 
,000 persons constantly reside on the waters before the city of Can- 
ton and its suburbs; they are kept as clean asa milk-pail, and contain 
entire families, who are born and live to the end of their days on the | 
river. This great city of boats presents a remarkable aspect ; through 
them it would be difficult to navigate, were it not that the fleet is 
arranged in streets, and at night lighted up. There are also other 
boats; each has been made by reducing the dimensions to the proper 
scale; in every particular, even to the employment of the same de- 
scriptions uf wood, the oars, sculls, rudders, setting poles, cordage, 
&c., are fac-similes of those in actual use. We are not sure that a 
Chinese canal boat, of a thousand years ago, might not be advanta- 
geously transferred to our own recently introduced water ways. 
Bridges.—There are four accurate mode]s of granite bridges, from 
one to four arches; the workmanship of the originals is of great 
beauty and durability, and really in them we discover the perfect 
arch, the most approved piers of the present day, and yet their bridges 
are so ancient, that the date of their erection is almost, if not entirely, 
lost. Having no carriages, they are imarely used for foot passengers, 
paren eoclers: and an occasional hy 2 > or bu 
s.—Four models of summe: Touses exhibit the pe- 
caller taste. af ‘the: Chinese; #6nie are" lain, and others very orna- 
mental, with their-scalloped roof, bells, gilding, painting, &c., and 
furnished with miniature chairs, tables, &c., models of real things, 
every part being complete for the luxuries of tea and the pipe. Tea 
is the universal beverage ; this is sold from eight cents the pound up 
to many dollars, and is an article on which some of their citizens ex- 
pend.a very large income. The working man carries it in his rude 
tea-pot to the fields, and drinks it cold to quench his thirst, while the 
more wealthy sip it on wey occasion of ceremony, ces or 
. familiar intercourse. 
Paintings.—The pictures ‘snilic paintings are very numerous, and 
probably occupy the greatest surface in the collection. Many of them 
_ were presented by aiviciguishen men of China, and many were painted 
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