14° 



KlNO-TE- 

 CHINC. 



TONG-LYU. 



Ufun. 



NANqyiN. 



CHINA. 



acus maxima Jquammofa of WiUughby^ Hi/}, pifc. app. 22. tab. 

 p. viii. This grows to forty pounds weight, and is in high 



erteem. 



About fifty miles from the eaflern fide of the Poyang lake, in 

 Lat. 29° 13, l^ands King-te-clAng^ on a plain furrounded \\ith 

 mountains, and having a navigable communication with the lake, 

 by means of a river that paffes by the city Tau-cbezVy and is 

 crowded with veffels which are continually palling or re-pafling, 

 either with the materials for the famous porcelain ware, or with 

 the porcelain itfelf, which is manufactured in no other place in 

 the empire than ^x.King-te-ching, 



In the Itinerary of Mr. Nieuhojf, 'Tojig-lyUy Ufun, Anbing, and 

 J'eytongi appear moll delightfully feated on the river. Tong-lyu 

 bears numerous marks of the ravages of the 'Tartars \ at Ufun 

 is a manufacSture of arms famous throughout all the empire. 



The great city of Nanking or Nanquin, in Lat. 32° 4' 30 ', is 

 feated on an extenfive plain, near a league from the river, but 

 united to it by feveral canals, capable of bringing up the im- 

 perial barks, which are as large as middle fized fliips. This 

 city was once the capital of China, till it was removed to Peking. 

 It was the Cbambdan of the Nubian geographer, on a river of the 

 fame name, which he fays * was the largeft in Cbina. The 

 Tartars made themfelves mailers of this city in 11 27, and before 

 they deferted it, burnt the magnificent imperial palace, demo- 

 lillied the famous obfervatory, and violated and deftroyed the fe- 

 pulchres of the emperors and other diftinguiflied perfonages. 

 The city is reported to be ninety miles in circumference ; later 



P. 69. 



furveys 



