CHINESE MANUFACTORIES. 



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manner, to the larger ones of the long-footed race. 

 The shops of tailors, sign-painters, apothecaries, 

 book and paper sellers, glass-blowers, &c. are 

 numerous ; and eating-shops, filled with all 

 kinds of birds and beasts, cooked in their peculiar 

 manner, and afterwards varnished ; and poul- 

 terers' shops, with living and dead poultry of all 

 descriptions, were in some of the streets very- 

 abundant. 



On arriving at the large or principal gate 

 leading into the city, strangers are not permitted 

 to pass : there are also smaller wicket-gates, 

 leading into the city, at other parts, at which 

 persons are stationed to prevent foreigners from 

 passing : several mandarins would occasion- 

 ally be seen carried in their chairs, as well as 

 some of the superior class of Chinese small-eyed 

 beauties borne in a kind of sedan, upon the 

 shoulders of coolies. On entering any of the 

 shops, to see the process of manufacturing, every 

 attention was paid us by the Chinese : one that 

 attracted our attention, was the melting and ma- 

 nufacturing the lead into thin plates, for lining tea- 

 caddies, chests, &c. This is effected by throwing 

 rapidly the molten lead between two flat stones, 

 upon the inner surfaces of each of which paper 

 was placed, pasted by its edges upon the stone : 

 as soon as the lead was thrown in, the upper stone 



