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/(30, a vaft mountain feems to open its fides to make room for the 

 famed pa.go<la. KonJan-SJam, filled with horrid idols, to whom al- 

 moft confl:ant facrifices are offered by the fanatical vifitants. 



A LITTLE farther is the great caille Mong/ey, of a quadrangu- 

 lar form, with a fquare tower at each corner ; equal in fize within 

 to a town ; feated on a lofty eminence, and acceflible by a nu- 

 merous flight of fteps cut out of the live rock. 



The city Xaochew next appears, near the conflux of two rapid 

 rivers, infamous for frequent wrecks. A pagoda is eredted on the 

 banks, famed for its idol, to which mariners fend up their prayers 

 for a fafe paflage, as the RofJians (MA of old, and as the Chriftians 

 of many parts oi Europe do to their S-aXntElmo to this very day. 



The rocks called the Five horfes beads, and the ftill more cu- Five Horses 

 rious rocks named Suytjeen, or tht/ive horrible devils, near to the 

 ferry Suytjeen, as much dreaded as Scylla and Cbarybdis for the 

 frequent fliipwrecks near them. They are of a columnar form, 

 and appear as if placed in order by human art. 



Nanbang or Nan-JJjeun-foo, in Lat. 25* 11' 58", is the laft ^'tv 

 in the province of ^lang-tung, and a confiderable trading city ; 

 to the north of it is a famous road over the mountain Meylin, cut 

 through the rock, three miles in length, with precipices on 

 both fides, but of a fecnre widenefs. This fmgular road being a 

 great communication from north to fouth, is perpetually crowded 

 as much as the fi:reets of the moft populous cities ; on the funi- 

 mit is built a temple in honor of the mandarine who made this 

 ufeful way at his own expence. 



After travelling fome days on horfeback, Mr, A7^//Z>o^re ached Nancan, 

 the great city Nangmt, m the province of Kyang-fee, feated on 



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