48 INDIA BEYONDTHE GANGES. 



fkins conftitute a great article of commerce ; fifty thoufancl of 

 them have annually been fent to Japan through the medium of 

 the Dutch. MandelJIo, a moft intelligent traveller, gives the fol- 

 lowing account of the trade of Siamy as it was in the year 1639 ; 

 fpeaking of the city of Jutbia^ he fays, " the principal com- 

 *' merce confifts in fluffs brought from Suratta and the coaft of 

 « Coromanckly all forts of Chineje commodities, precious flones, 

 « gold, benjamin, wax, copper, lead, indico, calamba-wood, 

 « brazil-wood, fapphires, rubies. Sec. but above all deer fkins, 

 « whereof they furnifh the Japanefe with about fifty thoufand 

 " every year. It Ukewife yields a great trade of rice, which 

 " they tranfport to all the neighboring ifles." 



^ T, To this we mav add the more modern account of the rich 



Other rRo- 



DucTioNs. produdlions of this kingdom, taken from Mr. Dalrymple's Reper- 



tory *. *' The produdions of this country are prodigious quan- 

 " tities of grain, cotton, benjamin, fandvil, agualo, and fapan 

 " woods; antimony, tin, lead, iron, load-ftones, gold and filver, 

 " fapphires, emeralds, agates, cryftal, marble, and tambanck." 



Hogs and wild fwine fwarm in the dominions of Siam ; mofl 

 of the favage beafts of India are equally numerous in this king- 

 dom. Kccmpfer fpeaks of two fpecies of monkies, one very large, 

 and black, the other fmaller, and of a grey color. The firrt 

 feems a kind not well afcertained, for the only black monkey of 

 the old world we are acquainted with, is that defcribed by Mr. 

 Edwards^ tab. 311, which is no larger than a cat. 



River of After doubling cape Liant, a bay opens to the north, and at 



the bottom receives the river of Liant. A vafl chain of moun- 



* P. 118. 



tains 



