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forms merely to pleafe the eye. Thofe engraven by Mr. Nieuho_ff'^ 

 are pierced through in various places, others have great 

 flights of fteps, cut out of the live rock, either to the fummit or 

 half way up, round which a walk, is condufled, guarded by rails, 

 and forming a gallery beneath the impending remainder of the 

 mountain. 



Nang-tchang-foo is a city feated in Lat. 29° 30', near the lake Nan-tchang- 



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To-yang, which is about four leagues broad and thirty in length, Lake Po-yanc. 

 abounding with excellent fifli, among which are iniwy European^ 

 fuch as fturgeon, falmon, carp, chubs, trout, fliads, and lam- 

 pries. 



About thirty miles farther to the north of Nan-tchang^ the 

 waters of the lake unite with thofe of the great river Kyang, 

 which is continued from thence to the fea. The city Hoo-tcboo Hoo-tchoo. 

 flands on the eaftern bank of the junction. A few miles up the 

 river to the weft, is the city Kyew Kiang, the rendezvous of the 

 barks of many parts of the empire. The river runs gently from 

 hence to the fea with a courfe almoft imperceptible ; but is at 

 full and new moon afFeited by the tide. 



In the Kyang near that city, where the river is a league broad, The Fish 

 is found the Whang-yu or yellow fifli, that often weighs eight hun- ^^^^-^^* 

 dred pounds ; it is remarkably firm, and moft excellent eating ; 

 thefe fifh are taken in certain feafons when they come out of the 

 lake Poyang into the river. We cannot afcertain the fpeeies. 

 Du Halde t fpeaks of another he calls the Cbo-kyaryw or armour Armour Fish, 

 fifli, being covered with ftrong fcales, placed like tiles in the roof 

 of a houfe. I fufpeft it to be the efox qffeus of LinncV-uS) or the 



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