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which thev foak in water, and then reduce to a Maffe or Dough, 
h ro hake it Not a word of the way of givulg it the co our, 
Ihlh it feeffls they keep as a great (ecret. b They have Gold and 
C 'umes but dig them not, pretending the danger and trou- 
ble''*, the work, and contenting themielves with the Filings and 
Duft of Gold , which they gather out of the Mud and Sand of 
HtS“ontaihs an account of their Works of ArcM- 
te g un a /d other ingenious MeChanrck Arts. Where he (peaks, 
Oftheitedupendious Bridges , one of ;60 Perches ong, an 
a Perch broad, without any Arch, (landing upon 3 co Pillars, 
with acute Angles on both oppofitefides, all the (tones being ° 
Tn equalfize and (hupe. Another, built from Mountain to Moun- 
tain by M only Arch, 4 eo cubits long, ^co cubits high (whence 
tis called Pons volant ) from the furface of the Saffrany River, 
running under it. This is reprefented, for the (atrsfaftiop of the ^ ^ 
Ca T 7 Awn"but whofe Houfes are generally but one Story * 
high and good reafon therefore, the Towns ihould be very big; 
They are, for the mod part, built of Timber. 
V Turrets very artificiall, whereof one is all of Porcellan. 
i The China Wall, ;oo German Leagues long ; 3 ° Cubits 
hish, 12 ( in fome places 1 ; ) Cubits broad, fo that taHorfes 
cannery conveniently go in fronton it; built 21 y years before 
Chriff , by the Emperour Pius, a brave and mod Warlike Prince, 
and difpatcht in the fpaceof five years ; commonly it is defen- 
ded by a Million of men. APattern of this al(o was thought fit 
to exhibit here, by Figure!!-. _ , 
, The Channel, that paffeth from one estream of China to the 
other, having (ome 24 Sheet, fo retain water, when tis necefiaryy 
a work of incredible indudry and extraordinary advantage. 
6 Fall Bells, onewhereof, at Pekin, weighs 120CO0 pounds; 
whereas* that of Erfurdm Gerwany, hitherto edeemed to be one of 
the bigged in the World, weighs but 25-400. pounds. 
As for their innmous Inventions, this Author mentions chiefly, 
t Their Venice, of w.hich lie fets down fome 1 {ectim both tor 
rite Red and Black, together with the way of their Wfe and Ap- 
plication, as he received them both from an Auguftmian Fryai *. 
affirming, that it differs not at all from that of China. , 
2- Their way of Printing, invented long before that in Europe,. 
giving a large defeription of the fame.- te 
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