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Foujjin. Large landfcape. In a fine but 

 gloomy ftile. 



From Cocken to Newcaflle the land is in 

 general good, and lets very high. That 

 town is too famous in the path of trade to 

 require from me a particular defcription : 

 Many particulars, relative to its commerce, 

 I tried to get, but in vain ; fuch as I pro- 

 cured are inferted in a very fev7 words , but 

 I can anfwer for the genuinenefs only, in 

 receiving my intelligence from fenfible in- 

 habitants. 



This town is fuppofed to contain 40,000 

 fouls, and to employ of its own, 500 fail 

 of ihips, 400 of which are colliers. The 

 corporation have an eftate of 13,500/. a 

 year, and allow their mayor 1200/. a 

 year *. 



Thefe particulars will by no means fa- 

 tlsfy you — they are far from fatisfying my- 

 felf, but they are all I could procure. — 

 I wanted to be informed of the tonnage of 

 their iliipping, the number of fallors em- 

 ployed, the nature and extent of their fo- 

 reign trade, the degree of increafe or de- 



* Sir IVaUer Blacktt, when he ferves that office, takes 

 nothing. 



creafe, 



