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eredletl before it on a tall pole. This is the only port in the 

 whole empire allowed to the Europeans. Their fliips may take 

 in wood and water where they pleafe, but are every where elfe 

 ftridtly forbid to trade; even here they are a fort of prifoners, 

 they are not to go beyond their bounds ; they may indeed enter 

 the fuburbs, but are fure to meet with every fpecies of abufe 

 from the mob. They are allowed to refide only during the time 

 the fliips remain at Wampu\ for as foon as they fail for Europe 

 every factory is obliged to retire to Macao till the feafon of their 

 return. 



The proper name of the river of Canton is Ta-Ho^ or the River op 

 great river. The ftream is rapid, but affecSled by the tide which 

 rifes four or five feet oppofite to the city ; it is navigable for 

 numbers of miles into the interior parts of the country for large 

 veffels, from the fea even to the city of ^icing-Ji; and again its 

 advantages are fpread far and wide by the infinity of canals. 

 Not only this, and other cities, but the canals themfelves, 

 for miles together, have their quays made of cut flone of ftu- 

 pendous fize, forming the moft magnificent fight which art, ap- 

 plied to commercial purpofes, can exhibit. 



The river oi Canton is guarded by various fortifications. The 

 fquare caftle on the ifland, engraven by Mr. NieuboJ, is a fpeci- 

 men of that kind of defence. 



The multitudes of ducks which animate the river about TameD 

 Canton is amazing ; « they are hatched,'' fays Mr. Latham* « by 

 " artificial heat; the eggs being laid in boxes offand, are placed 

 *' on a brick hearth, to which is given a proper heat during the 



* Ornith. Vol. iii. 492. 



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