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cui'icha is, the more it is in requeft ; it is 

 even pretended, that it has been kept in fome 

 famines, with aftonifliing precautions, for 

 more than a century : but this is an affair of 

 ^fte, abfolutely foreign to commerce. 



China Ink, 



THIS is a compofition of fiih-glue, oxi- 

 gal), and lamp-black. When in a liquid 

 ftate, it is poured into fmall wooden moulds, 

 where it is fuffered to harden. 



The Chinefe confider it as an excellent 

 remedy for fpitting of blood. They keep 

 fome of ft, therefore, often in their mouths, 

 as the Europeans do lozenges. The beft is 

 made at T'demen^ a city of the province of 

 Nankin, fituated on the Kkng, or blue 

 riven That of the fineR quality is dry, hard, 

 black, and Ihuiing, 



Galega* 



