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baRdmen,tnaking,among other waies of improving their foile, 
great ufe of Flouding. 
f That the Phyficims of China do care Sickneffes with much 
^afe, and in a fiiort time: That they have very ancient Books 
of the nature and vertues of Herbs , Trees and Stones : That 
their Modern Phyfieians f as well as their Ancient ones did ) 
write of the Prognofticks, Caafes, of Difeafes.That 
their Remedies confift for the moft part of Simples and Deco - 
Bions, Cauteries , FriUions ; without the ufe of Bloud4etting:T hat 
they have fuch an excellent skill and method in feeling the 
Bulf ? , that by the means thereof they dilcover even the moft 
latent caufes of Difeales $ taking a good half hour, when they 
vifit a Patient, in feeling and examining his Pulfe: Thatthey 
prefcribe much the ufe otThe^ and the drinking alwayes 
warms, whatever they drink : To the cuftome of both which 
its imputed 9 that the inhabitants of China do fp it very little, 
nor are fubje<5t to the Stone or Gout : That they prife highly 
the Root Ginfeng, as an extraordinary Reftorative and Cordi- 
al!, recovering frequently with it agonizing perfon? ; one 
poundof it being paid with 5 pounds of fiber. Asfortheir 
Cbymijh , ^of wnich they have alfo good ftore J 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- 
feage, without regard to Bloud or Parentage, excepting the 
Royall Family . r ° 
7 . That in CHE K I AN, a maritime Province, whence is the 
ihorteft cut of China to Japan, is the beft and plentifulleft 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 , there being a double Silk-har- 
veft in that Country, as there is in feverall other parts of the 
Eaft-indies ; ( both which there is hope, will fliortlv be imi- 
tated in Virginia, ) J 
3. That the way of making foretime is this: {Which is the ra~ 
iber infer tea berepecaufe it agrees (0 well with an Account , we receu 
ved a rvbile> fince from a very Curious and intelligent Per fan of Am . - 
jterdam. ) There is in the Province of Nankin a Town," calM 
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