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Here are confiderable manufatSlures of filk and cotton, the Silk and 



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produce of their own country ; but the Dutch are allowed to 

 import a great quantity of cloths, fluffs, chintzes and cottons. 



The drels of the better fort of people are filk-, of the lower, Habits. 

 cotton. Their habits are loofe gowns with large fleeves. In 

 fummcr they are thin ; in winter quilted ; and often they put 

 on one or more additional, according to the feverity of the feafon. 

 The women's apparel refembles the men's, only the gowns of 

 the former are nmclvlonger, and trail on the ground ; men of 

 rank alfo wear trowfers, and Ihort black jackets placed over their 

 gowns. They ufe fandals, but do not wear flockings ; and 

 always go bare-headed, except in a journey, when they put on 

 a conical cap of ftraw ; at other times they protedl themfelves 

 from the fun and rain by fans and umbrellas. 



The manufacfture of porcelain is of great antiquity. Porcelain. 



T CONCLUDE the account oi Japan with a very brief mention Miaco. 

 of the tvvo capitals, of which Miaco is the moft antient, and the 

 original feat of empire. The plan is given by Kaempfer*', 

 copied from the original now depofited in the Britifh Mufeum, 

 by which it appears moft regularly built, the ftreets eroding each 

 other at right angles. It lies in about Lat. 35° 40' north, in a 

 large plain, furrounded with beautiful verdant hills and moun- 

 tains, and watered by numbers of fmall ftreams. Miaco is the 

 refidence of the Dairo, or ecclefiaftical emperor, and is full of 

 manufadtures of all kinds, being the chief mercantile town in 

 the empire. Here, the richeft ftuffs with gold and (ilver flowers 

 are woven ; copper fmelted-; and among the moft trifling mat- 

 ters, are made the puppets with moving heads. 



* Hift. of Japan, vol. ii. tab. 27. 



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