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Oranges. 



Li-CHi Fruit. 



A-MWY. 



CHINA. 



up to a great height, and conveyed to the different plantations in 

 pipes of hamboo. This province is remarkable for its vaft com- 

 merce, opulence, and population, and alfo for its amazing fertility. 

 Among the vegetable produftions, it is diftinguiaied for its 

 fine oranges; one is very large, and its rind quite loofe to the 

 pulp, which has the tafte and fmell of the mufcadine grape. 

 This kind is candied, and fent to all parts of the empire ; another 

 i-s of a deep red; and a third very finall. China is the native 

 i:)laee of oranges, from whence they were communicated to the 



weftern world. 



The Li-cbi and Long-ywen are fruits peculiar to the more 

 fouthern parts of this empire, of mod exquifite flavor, efpecially 

 the firft, which has of late years been moft faccefsfully intro- 

 duced into Bengal. 



Hyamen^ or the port of J-mwy, is an excellent road for fhips, 

 in a deep bay, beneath the flielter of the ifle of A-mwy, in Lat. 

 24° 27'. The ifland is flat and morafiy, and garrifoned by about 

 fix or feven thoufand men. Before the prohibitory edidl: it was 

 much frequented by European fhips. The Dutch, about the year 

 J645, made a treacherous attempt on the place ; they came with 

 five fliips, and landed about three hundred men, who entered 

 tlie town ; the greater part of the inhabitants fled, but cunningly 

 left in their houfes abundance of fpirituous liquors ; this proved 

 the bait they intended. The Dutch intoxicated themfelves to a 

 great degree ; of this the fugitive citizens had notice ; they re- 

 turned, furprifed the invaders in their fleep, and put rhem all to 

 the fword. The Cbinefe have preferved the hiftory in large 

 charaders, on the face of a fmooth rock near the entrance of the 



harbor. 



On 



