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Notes, makes 166$. and by different Combinations with 
other Words^ give a different Signification, which makes 
it difficult. They write Charadlers or Hieroglyphieks for 
Words, which are cooaputed to 80000. tho one know- 
ing 1 5 or xoooo are counted Learned, write with a 
Pencil from top to bottom, and right Hand to left ; 
double the Paper becaufe of its finking, and Grave whtn 
they Print, glew the Manufcripts to the Table, and 
fo fol'ow theftrokesof the Writing. Their Paper is made 
of the inward Bark of Bamlou and Alom, neither Cotton 
nor Silk, will make a fit pafte for Paper, teiogeatenby 
Worms.the beft Ink made of the Lamp-black, and of the 
Fatof Sivine. TheEmperour Chioamti zooYtzxs^ ante 
ChnjimnhurnX all Books but AgriculturejPhyfickandSdr- 
tilegesjiere \s a largeAccount of C^nftdcius and his Maximso 
The Eighth treats of the particular Char aiier of the 
Knowledge of the t:^i^<?/^,wherein he tells us.that thb they 
have a genera! Knowledge of moft Sciences, and Recom- 
pgofts for thofe who fucceed in new Inventions , they 
come far Ihort of Europeans they Number by a kind 
cf Ahactu (long fince ihown to the Society by Dr.Hook) 
Their Geometrie and Mufique,are not perfefVjAftronomy 
mort ; having 400 Obfervations of Eclipfes, to reform 
their Chronologie; yet Religion has profited by fetting 
their Calender right ; they are great Aftrologers for gqod 
and bad Days ; the Emperour i7<?^fw/i compofed a Ti'ea- 
tife of Pulfes, ufe four Fingers to feel them,by which they 
predift ftrcingely, but abufe the People they knew no 
Bleeding but from Macao ^ Cupping-glalies are calfd Mor-^ 
Mchin, and Cure by aduai Cautery to the Feet • they 
have many Simples,and to each of them afcribe Virtues • 
400 Herbs are defign'd in Colours after the Emperour.^'j^ 
for his Cabinet Father ^//^^7^?« is Tranflatingthe Chi» 
nefe Herbal ; there is no Gravel, Stone, or Gout, or Sciati- 
ca in China ; Tartars feeding on raw FleSb, ufe Teaj, 
gpod for Indigeflions and Head-achs ftveral forts of 
