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Jun^ a great Mandarine of the palace, A. D. 95, who made it 

 nearly in the manner we do, from old fragments of doth or filk, 

 and the bark of trees, boiled and reduced to a thin paite. The 

 confumption of paper in this empire is prodigious; the Cacoethes 

 Scribendi occafions an amazing demand, and the qviantity ufed 

 for the papering of their rooms is inconceivable. Their painted 

 papers are more famed for the richnefs of the colors, than the 

 jutlnefs and elegance of the defign. They have no notion of 

 perfpe6live, nor the leaft ikill in delineating the human figure, 

 all which appear like fo many caricatures. The fubje<5ts are 

 chiefly domettic fcenes, agriculture, fuch as the cultivation of 

 rice, &:c. &:c. of tea, and the various procelTes, from the planting 

 to the package for foreign markets. 



The confumption of ink muft necefTarily be equal to that of Ine:» 

 paper ; the manufadlure employs, in the province of Nanqtdn, 

 whole villages ; lamp-black U the bafis, whether of the liquid 

 ink ufed for printing, or of that which is brought over to us 

 imder the name oi Indian ink, in flicks, with Chineje charaiters, 

 and ornamented with colored figures of flowers. Sec. The in- 

 vention of ink in China, is faid to have been in the reiG;n of 

 Ven-ti, about a hundred and fixty years before Cnriil:. 



The emperor Kam-hi caufed the wars again iT; the E'utBs, and 

 thofe on the frontiers of little Bucharia^ to be painted, and fent 

 long after into Europe, in order to be engraven by the beft ar- 

 tifts ; thefe were the performances of the Jefuits, and done in a 

 very good manner. They were placed in the hands of he Bas at 

 Paris, and engraven in 1770 ; the plates were fent to China ; but 

 becaufe the figures in the back grounds were not drawn as large 



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