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Elephant. — N° 165, is placed, like the camel, in the materia 

 medica of Cbhia ; they are found in the provinces of 

 ^lang-fi and Yunan. Do they exift there at prefent ? 

 None are applied to ufe. 



II. Digitated. 



Ape.— Great black apes, with features like the human, in the li. Digitated. 

 ifland of Hat-nan ; fcarce. 



Grey apes, in the fame ifland; very ugly, and common. 



Apes with yellow hair; in fhape, and (lirilnefs of cry like 

 dogs : In the province of ^ang-fi. None of thefe fpecies af- 

 certained. 



Dog. — Dogs are a favorite food in China, and their flefli is com- 

 mon in the fhambles. When the butchers are dragging 

 (as is cuftomary) half a dozen to the flaughter-houfe, they 

 are attacked by all the dogs within hearing of the cries of 

 their fellows, fo that they are obliged to have people to 

 defend them with flicks. 



The common people oi China will eat any animal, even if they 

 have died of ficknefs, fuch as dead horfes and dogs that they fee 

 floating down the canals. China is certainly the moft plentiful, 

 yet from the vafl: fuperabundance of the inhabitants, no people 

 fuffer fuch mifery as the lowefl: order ; the produce of the earth 

 frequently is infufficient to fupport fuch multitudes ; this, not 

 want of aflecSlion, compels them to expofe their infants to death. 

 In China, children are efteemed a peculiar blefling. In times of 

 famine, or when the mothers fall hck, or their milk fails, they 



expofe 



