8 TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
pany. This gentleman has for feveral years beeq 
making collections of natural curiofities. Hafle 
would not permit me to fee more than a large col- 
lection of fhells and handfome corals, efpecially one 
that had a large piece of the balls left, which was 
clay. This gentleman had got home, in the lafl 
fhips, four gold filh in frefh water ; they were from 
Canton, and quite lively. They eat wafers : the 
manner of bringing this fifli to Europe is defcribed 
by Dr. Linnmus, in the royal Swedifh academy of 
Sciences for 1 74 6 . A heifer, nine months old, from 
China, which differed in nothing from our cows but 
that fhe feemed more lively and fprightly, as if fhe 
had been bred up in the fields and in the open air, 
and not confined in a narrow hut or a dark liable, 
which always give creatures a fad and poor appear- 
ance. She was of a red brown, fat and merry, and 
the voyage feemed to have had no bad effeCt on her. 
A live plant of the Bamboo reed, fo much ufed by 
the Chinefe; the Item was an inch thick, articulated, 
a fpan’s length between the joints; the leaves fword- 
fhaped, the whole plant was two feet high. Mr. Ar- 
vidfon, the librarian, fbewed me the library of the 
college. Seba’s excellent book was the dearefl and 
bell they had. They had already made a handfome 
collection of natural curiofities, amongfl which were 
the Flying-fifh, an Eel of an enormous fize, the teeth 
of a Sea-horfe, a very handfome Lithodendron, a 
Hair Ball ( iEgagropila) of a Cow, the bignefs of 
one’s fit, a. Parcel of PetrefaCtions given by the late 
Dr. Stoboeus. 
The cloaths which women here ufe in bad wea- 
ther appe ar ftrange to travellers. They throw a piece 
of black fluff, four feet long, over their heads and half, 
their bodies, fo as likewife to cover their faces. It is 
ufed by all people of middling fortunes, and hath 
without doubt been introduced by the foreigners, 
that' 
