CHINA. 



the inhabitants to strange shifts for a support ; all sorts of trades may be seen carried on in tne 

 streets or the open air, where are seen the smiths, tinkers, and coblers, with their little portable 

 shops ; the noisy mirth of the mountebanks, conjurers, and jugglers ; the twanging noise of the 



Pedler. Itinerant Fruit-seller. 



barber's tweezers, like the jarring sound of a cracked Jew's harp ; the ingenious contrivances 

 of the pedlers, and fruit, flower, pigeon, and dog merchants to attract notice and dispose of 

 Jieir wares, fill the eyes and ears of a stranger with novel sights and sounds. 



Fruit-seller. Pigeon Merchant. 



17. History. China has at different epochs formed a great number of independent States, 

 and has been repeatedly subjected by foreign conquerors. The last event of this character was 

 the conquest of the country by the Manchoos, in 1644 j but the conquerors have assumed the 



