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Jedo. 



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JAPAN. 



The number of inhabitants in Kaempfer"?, time was 529,726, 

 of which 52,169 were eccleliaftics. 



Various flreams unite and form a river which flows from 

 hence to the great commercial city and port of Ofacca, on a fine 

 bay ; which laft is faid to be fo populous, that in cafe of need it 

 could fend forth an army of eighty thoufand men. 



Doctor Kaempfer gives * a very good idea of the beauty and 

 fingularity of fome of the coafts between Miaco and OJacca^ in 

 his views of Simoaji, Morizu, and Muni, with the femicircular 

 hills with which thofe places are backed, mofl charadteriftically 

 cultivated to the very tops. 



Jedo, the refidence of the temporal, and in fa6l the real em- 

 peror, is built with far lefs regularity t, becaufe built by degrees, 

 and on no certain plan : It ftands in Lat. 35' 32' north. The 

 palace is very large, and covers a vaft extent of ground. The 

 city has great numbers of temples dedicated to Ajnida, and the 

 various deities; the ecclefiaftics are of courfe prodigioufly nume- 

 rous. The houfes are in general fmall and mean, and liable to 

 frequent fires ; four thoufand have been burnt by a fingle ac- 

 cident. A large river runs through the city, and falls into the 

 harbor ; one branch encompafles the caftle, and divided into five 

 fireams, unites with the other in the port. 



The naval force of the Japanefe is very fmall, the emperors 

 not having thought proper to maintain a fleet fince the expulfion 

 of foreigners, prefuming it impoffible to have quarrels with na- 

 tions with whom they could have no intercourfe. The merchant 

 fhips, which are built only for conveying goods from ifland, to 

 iiland, are moll clumfily made, and by the emperor's order, in 



* Hift. of Japan, vol. ii. p. 468. tab. 25. f Ibid. vol. ii. tab. 39. 



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