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water-wheel is brought into play, and it is perfectly 
astonishing how much water can be raised by this 
simple contrivance in a very short space of time. 
Sugar-cane is also grown rather extensively near 
Whampoa, and in its raw state is an article in 
_ great demand amongst the Chinese. It is manu- 
factured into sugar-candy and brown sugar; many 
kinds of the latter being particularly fine, though 
not much used by the foreigners residing in the 
country ; who generally prefer the candy reduced 
to powder, in which state it is very fine and white. 
I did not see our loaf-sugar in any part of China, 
and I conceive that it is not made there. 
A great number of the common fruit trees of 
the country grow all over the plains and near the 
side of the river. The mango, guava, wangpee 
(Cookia punctata), leechee, longan, oranges, and 
pumeloes, are the principal kinds. Besides these, 
there are the cypress, thuja, banyan and other 
kinds of fig-trees, and a species of pine, called by 
the Chinese the water pine, from its always grow- 
ing by the sides of the rivers and canals. The 
bamboo, and a sort of weeping willow very much 
like our own, are also frequently met with. The 
name which the Chinese give to the latter is the 
“ sighing” willow, coinciding rather curiously with 
oar own term of ‘ weeping,” and when taken in 
connection with the historical fact of the Jews 
weeping by the streams of Babylon, and hanging 
their harps upon the willows, show that this is re- 
garded as the emblem of sorrow as universally 
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