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That undertakes to defcribe the Curiofties and Trodufticm of No* 
and Art, in China. Here, the Author having premifed fome- 
thin p of the advantageous Scituation of China ., and its Political 
Government ; Calculated alfo both the Number of its Inhabi- 
tants, (which according to him, amount to ac© Millions of Men, 
befides Women , Children, Officers, and Eunuchs y) and the 
Annual Revenue of theEmpercur f which he makes to be 150 
Millions of Gold-Crowns 5 ) he relateth many confidence pro- 
du&ions and works of Nature in that Country y As 
1. Mountains very odd for ffiape, burnings and railing of I cm* 
pelts. 
2. Ijles, to the number of 99. all turned into one, under the 
fame extent of fpace they had, when they were divided by water. 
3. Lakes*, fome changing Copper into Iron,and cauling florins* . 
when any thing is call into them * and others , fprung up by 
Earth* quakes. 
4. Rivers, whereof one is Paid to be of a Blew colour in Au- 
tumn, and for the reft of the year Limpid: Another, to be cold 
at the top, and very hot beneath. 
y. fiery Wells, ferving to boy! meat over : Perhaps of the fame 
Nature with that here in England, we defcribed above. 
6 . Plants, as 1. fome Rofes, changing their Colour twice a day:: 
Whence the Author takes occaft-on to fpeakof that Plant, which 
grows at Rome , in the Garden of one Signior Corvino , call d Violet 
JdoBuma, changing its colour fenlibly, according to the degrees; 
of the riling and declining of the Sun * deftitute of all fmell inu 
the day-time, but having a very fragrant one in the night. 2. x 
A Farinaceous or Mealy Tree, ferving to make Bread of it. 5. 
Leaves of certain Trees, Handing on the; fide of a Lake, which* 
falling into the water, become like black Birds : which he aferib- 
eth to the Seminal parts of fome Eggs, broken on thofe Trees, 
fill’d with Birds- nefts. 4. Eke, and its wholefomenefs , as to the 
fuppreffing of V apours, and preventing the Stone, p A kind o£ 
Wickcr-Tree y which, as if it were a Rope t willed by Nature, a- 
bout an inch thick, creeps along upon the Earth, fometimes the 
length of 1 20 paces, much embaraffing the way^but ferving for 
Cables to Ships, Seats, Hurdles 5 Beds,Matts ; enduring n© Ver- 
min ; .and being cool and refrelliing in hot Seafons. 6 . The 
iahmha-ffl$ydi that it is efteem’d by feme to be a kind of Ren*. 
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