170 



Manilla. 



Nations 

 adjacent to 

 THE Chinese 

 Empire. 

 AvA, Thibet, 



CHINA. 



from the magazines formed there, they proceed on the eaft fide 

 of Formofoy and to Manilla, where they trade under the name of 

 Cbineje, and by this means acquire fuch quantities of SpanifJo 

 filver; they likewife get abundance of ducats in Japan, ex- 

 changing their ingots for fpecie ; with this filver they pay for 

 great part of the manufactures of China. 



They do not purchafe any European goods in Cbinai yet 

 Korea abounds with thofe of our diftant world ; thefe are pro- 

 cured in the Fhillippines, or at Batavia ; fpices, and fever al other 

 infular commodities, are bought in the fame market ; from that 

 of Manilla, they bring amethyfts and emeralds; the laft cer- 

 tainly from the mines of Atacames, Manta, and Santa-Fe*, in 

 SpaniJJj America. Their intercourfe with the Oriental iflands 

 muft have been long, for Mr. Campbell obferves, that the people 

 who were fo cruelly murdered by the Dutch, in Amboina in the 

 year 1622, for the pretended confpiracy with the Englijh, were 

 Koreans, and not (as they are called) Japanefe. But there is 

 no limiting the period of trade among thefe diftant nations, 

 forward as we have fhewn them to be in the arts of navi- 

 gation. 



I SHALL conclude the account of this fingular country, with 

 a view of the adjacent nations, whether dependent or indepen- 

 dent on this mighty empire. 



The kingdoms on the fouth are Tonquin and Laos; a fmall 

 part of Pegu advances a little into the fouth-weft, and the 

 northern end of Ava borders on the lower part of the province 

 of Yunan. 'Thibet is adjacent to the provinces of Sechwen, a great 



* Ulloa,vol. i. 81. 5c6. 



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