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lane, is alfo found here, and much of it fent to Canton for that 

 purpofe. The filheries are very kicrative, twenty or thirty thoa- 

 fand jonks, of noinconfiderable fize, come annually from Canton 

 to take in cargoes of the dried or faked iifli. Our company's fnips 

 now and then put in here, and may be fecure during the mon- 

 foons. 



The continent, after attaining the bottom of the peninfula, 

 trends towards the north-eaft, and is all the way fkirted with 

 ifles. Thofe heft known to mariners are the two Saticiams^ the 

 Falfe^ and that called Saint Jobn''s, beneath which is good an^ 

 chorage. The great Ladrone and the Ajfes Ears are noted 

 land marks. The entrance of the vaft bay of Canton opens 

 to the eaft of Sanciam ; the breadth ^'there is about two and 

 twenty leagues, and the depth nearly the fame ; but filled with 

 iflinds divided by molt narrow and intricate channels ; poffibly 

 thefe might be the gates of China mentioned by the two Maho- 

 metan travellers of the ninth century, as Canton was their CanfOf 

 even at that time a moft flourilhing city. It was alfo the Ca^ 

 necium of the Nubian geographer '••■. 



Sauc am is famed for having been the place of interment of IslecfSan- 

 Sa'mt Frances de Xavier, and for his tomb, which Hill is to be ^^'^^^' 

 iecii. Another ille is that of Hoan-pou, where the Dutch had 

 built a fort in order to command the navigation of the Tigris, 

 or river of Canton. Their deiign was difcovered, and they were 

 all maffacred. 



The moft important city is that of Macao, feated on a little Macao. 

 peninfula, and which was, during a certain period, celebrated 



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