bb2 SHOPS AND TRADE. [Cnar. XIX. 
thousand canals, and dotted all over with towns and 
villages peopled with an immense number of indus- 
trious and happy human beings. Chapoo and the 
country which surrounds it may well be called the 
garden of China. 
After inspecting the hills, I went down into the 
Tartar city of Chapoo. The suburbs are large and 
populous, but the walled city itself is not very ex- 
tensive. It is a square, and the circuit of the walls 
is not more than three miles; they seem very old, 
and are surrounded by a moat, which also serves 
the purpose of a canal. Here the Tartar troops 
and their families reside, living entirely apart from 
the Chinese inhabitants of the town. 
The streets, houses, and shops are of the same 
kind as those which I have already described. In- 
deed, so like is one town in China to another, that, 
if a traveller well acquainted with the northern 
cities, was set down blindfolded in one of them, he 
would have the greatest difficulty in saying whether 
it was Chapoo, Ningpo, or Shanghae. I observed 
in the shops a considerable quantity of Japanese 
goods, which are brought annually to this place by 
the junks which trade with Japan. 
By the time I had examined all the chief objects 
of interest, it was late in the afternoon, and I began 
to think of leaving the city and taking the road for 
Shanghae. I had already taken measures by means 
of my servant to find the part of the canal from 
which the Shanghae boats started, and thither pro- 
ceeded with the intention of engaging a boat. A 
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