bandmerijinakingi among other waies of improving their foile^ 
great ule of Flouding. 
f. That the Phyficiansoi China do cure Sickneffes with much 
cafe, and in a fhort time: That they have very ancient Books 
of the nature and vertues of Herbs , Trees and Stones ; That 
their Modern Phyfieians ( as well as their Ancient on@s did ) 
write of the PrognoftickSj Caufes,EfFed:s,C^^^. of Difeafes.That 
their Remedies confift for the moft part of Simples and Decom 
Bionsy Cauteries^ Frisians i without the ufeof B loud- letting:! h^Lt 
they have fuch an excellent skill and method in feeling the 
Ful/e , that by the means thereof they difcover even the moft 
latent caufes of Difeafes 5 taking a good half hour, when they 
vifit a Patient, in feeling and examining his Pulfe: That they 
prefcribe much the ufe of The ^ and the drinking alwayes 
warmej whatever they drink : To the cuftomeof both which 
it's imputed 5 that the inhabitants of China do fpit verylittlcj, 
nor are fubje^l to the Stone or Gout : That they prife highly 
the Koot Ginfena, as an extraordinary Reftorative and Cordi- 
all, recovering frequently with it agonizing perfons * one 
pound of it being paid with 5 pounds of filver. As for their 
Chymifis , (of which they have alfogoodflore ) they go be- 
yond ours, promifing not only to make Gold, but to give Im- 
mortality. 
6. That their Nobility is raifed from Learning and Know- 
ledge, without regard to Bloud or Parentage, excepting the 
Royall Family . 
7, That in CHE KlAN^z maritime Province, whence is the 
fliorteft cut of China to 'japan^ is the befland plentifallcft Silk^ 
trade in the world : And that there every year the Mulberries 
are cutt, and kept down, that they grow not into Trees,for the 
eafier gathering of the Leaves j there being a d§uble Silk-har- 
veft in that Country, as there is in feverall other parts of the 
Eaft-indies; (both which there is hope, will fiiortlybe imi«- 
tated in Virginia, ) 
8. That the way of making Porcelane is thJ> : {Which is the raZ 
ther inferted herejbecaufe it agrees [0 weS with an Aceounty r^e recei^ 
ved a whiles fince from a very Curious and intelligent P erf on of Am* 
flerdam, ) There is in the Province of N^?j-^?>/ a Town, call'd 
L I 2 Goefifol, 
