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Goefifoh whence they draw the Earth for Porcelains, which is 
found between the Rocks of Mountains. This Earth they beat 
very (mall, and ftamp it to a very fine Powder, and then put it 
into Tubs fill’d with water ; where the fin eft part finks to the 
bottom. Afterwards ’tis kneaded in the form of fmall Cubes, of 
the weight of about %.Catti(a Catti being 20 Ounces. ) Thefe 
pieces thus wrought are fold to the people, that commonly in 
great numbers fetch them, coming from the Town Sintefimo 
(otherw ifejontzou) in the Province of Kganfy^ being about fo 
miles diftant from Wolfing , neer the City If l d N S Ti which 
people tranfport them to their homes, and there bake them in 
this manner: They heat their Ovens well, for the fpace of 2 y 
dales fucceflively , and then keep them fo clofe , that no Air 
may get in - and after 15 other daies are pafs’d, they open the 
Oven in the prefence of an Officer, who takes every fifth vef-. 
fel of each falhion for the fervice of the Emperor : Which done, 
the reft is fold to thofe o iVciemen^ whence it is tranfported all- 
over the Country. So that the Earth is not prepared, in Nankin ' 
where ’tis found, becaufe the people of that Province have not 
the skill of working it, as the other above-mention’d ; who al~ 
f o atone have the Art of coloring it, which they keep as a great 
Secret, not teaching it to any, but their Children and next 
Kindred. 
9* That MusJ^ is nothing elfe , but the Tefticles of a Beaft 
like a Dear, found in the Province of Honan and that , when 
tis good and unmixt, as it comes from the Animal^ they fell it 
even in Nan fin and Pekin^ for 30. or 35. Teyls (that is, about fo 
many Crowns) the Catti. 
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Many other curious informations might be borrowed from 
this Author, concerning the Cuftoms,Stndies, Exercifes of the 
Chinefe ; of the number of the people of each Province >• of 
the Natural productions of the Earth and Rivers there / of the 
Structure and Antiquity of their Wall 5. of the Magnificence 
of their Porcelain Tower &e ; but, remitting for thefe things 
to the Book it felf,we final only add a piece of Oeconomy,ufed 
by the Holland - Merchants in their Commerce with China-, which 
is, that they dry abundance of Sage-leaves, role them up, and 
grejnare 
