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'well as that of acquiring a knowledge of, in order to 
'•conform themfelves to, the laws and cuftoms of,the coun¬ 
try. In this particular the viceroy allured his excellency 
that no farther obftrudtion Ihouid be given on the part 
of government. 
The real difpohtion of the viceroy to cherilh and pra¬ 
ted! the Englilh, was countenanced by recent difpatches 
from the emperor, who therein exprefted the welcome 
which would be given at his court to another embafiy 
from the king of Great Britain, and his defire that notice 
■might be timely given of the minifter’s arrival at Canton, 
•that proper perfons might be difpatched thither to con- 
-du£t him to Pekin. And by an extract from another 
letter it was Hated, that as his imperial majelly intended 
to relign the reins of government in the fifty-Ieventh year 
of their current cycle, correfponding to our year 1796, 
he wilhed to lee fucli miniiter at. or as loon as conve¬ 
nient after, that time. “ Thus,” fays the learned lecre-, 
tary, “the embafiy, according to the expectations which 
•led to the undertaking, but contrary to the profpedts 
which clouded it fometimes in its progrefs, lucceeded, at 
length, not only in obtaining permiffion, but in receiv¬ 
ing an invitation, for a fimilar intercourfe with the court 
of China, whenever the government of Great Britain and 
the company ffiail deem expedient to renew it.” 
All the buildings eredted for the purpofes of com¬ 
merce, and for tranfadtions in trade with any foreigner, 
are obliged to be without the city walls. This necefla- 
rily renders the out-buildings unufuaily extenfive. The 
valt numbers of ftrangers always to be ieen in the luburbs, 
while their lliips are unloading and loading in the river; 
their various languages, drefles, and charadterillic de¬ 
portment, would leave it almoll a doubt, if a judgment 
were to be formed from a view on this fide of the city, 
to what particular nation it belonged. The Chinefe ar- 
tilts at this place are very lkiiful and ingenious. They 
manufadlure a number of trinkets in gold, filver, and 
particularly in their white copper, which the Chinefe do 
not wear; but which are fold in Europe as Chinefe orna¬ 
ments. Their white copper takes a beautiful polifli; and 
many articles which have the appearance of filver, are 
formed only of this metal. An accurate analyfis of it 
lately made, has determined it tp confilt of copper, zinc, 
a little filver, and, in fome fpecimens, a few particles of 
iron, and fome nickel, have been found. Tu-te-nag is, 
properly fpeaking, zinc, extrafted from a rich ore, or 
calamine. The Chinefe make early and great ufe of fpec- 
-tacies, which are manufactured at Canton, and formed 
of cryftal, The glafs beads and buttons of various ffiapes 
and colours, worn by perlons of rank in China, are 
chiefly made at Venice.; and this is among the remnants 
of the great and almoft exclufive trade which the Vene¬ 
tians formerly carried on with the eaft. Canton feems to 
be almoft the only place in China where any houle is to 
be feen with glafs window's, or chimnies ; a ftyle of build¬ 
ing evidently introduced there by the Europeans, who 
ffirit ereCted them in the luburbs. Within the city, in¬ 
deed, very few windows are to be feen but what are con- 
.ttruCted of paper, as is the cuftom throughout China ; 
nor are there many houfes with chimneys, although the 
•Chinefe at Canton leemed very fond of indulging in the 
comforts of an open fire-fide, while engaged at the am- 
baflador’s hotel. The bufinefsof the embafiy having been 
concluded, as ftated above, the ambaflador and his fuite 
took their final departure from Canton; and, after fome 
Stay at the Portuguefe fettlement of Macao, they let fail 
for Europe on the 17th of March 1794, and arrived fafe 
at Portfmouth on the 6th of September following. 
CHI'NA,/. [from China, the country where it is made.] 
China ware; porcelain; a fpecies of veltels made in China, 
-dimly tranl’parent, partaking of the qualities of earth and 
glafs. See Porcelain. 
Spleen, vapours, or fmall-pox, above them all 3 
And miftrefs of herfelf, tho’ chinaPope , 
CHI 
CHI'NA, / in botany ; fee Smilax. 
CHI'NA ORANGE,/. The fweet orange; brought 
originally from China.—Not many years has the China 
orange been propagated in Portugal and Spain. Mortimer , 
CHI'NA PINK, /. in botany; fee Dianthus. 
CHI'NA ROOT, /.. A medicinal root, brought origi¬ 
nally from China. See Smilax. 
CHI'NA ROSE,/, in botany ; fee Hibiscus. 
CHIN'CA, a valley of South America, in Peru, where 
the ancient incas had formerly built a temple, dedicated 
to the lun. It once contained 25,000 inhabitants, now 
reduced to about 500 families; the town, which gives 
name to a valley, lies fixteen miles north of Pifco. When 
tliis country was conquered by the Spaniards, Pizarro 
defired the king of Spain that this might be the limits of 
his government on the foutli, and that the river St. Jago 
fliould bound it on the north. The valley bears good 
wheat, and Spanifh vines thrive well in it. 
CHINCHIL'LA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Murcia: twenty-five leagues fouth-weft of Valencia. Lat. 
3S.4.8. N. Ion. 14. 53. E. of the Peak of Teneriffe. 
CHIN'CHINA, / in botany; lee Cinchona. 
CHIN'CHIO, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Dalmatian fix miles eaft of Spalatro. 
CHIN'CON, a town of Spain, in New Caftile: eighteen 
miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Madrid. 
CHIN'COUGH, /. [perhaps more properly kincoughj, 
from ktnckin, to pant, Dut. and cough.] A violent and 
convulfive cough, to w'hich children are fubjedt. See 
-Medicine. 
CHINE, / [ efchine , Fr . fchiena, Ital. fpina, Lat. rein, 
Arm.] The part of the back in which the fpine or back- 
bone is found : 
He prefents her with the tuiky head, 
And chine with rifing briftles roughly fpread. Dryden. 
A piece of the back of an animal.—He had killed eight 
fat hogs for this leafon, and he had dealt about his chines 
very liberally amongft his neighbours. Addifon. 
’To CHINE, <v. a. To cut into chines.—He that in his 
line did chine the long-ribb’d Apennine. Dryden. 
CHINE (La), a town of Lower Canada, in Britifk 
America, fituated in a bay of lake St. Louis, which is a 
broad part of the river St. Lawrence. Here are confider- 
able ftorehoufds belonging to the king of Great Britain, 
and alfo to the merchants of Montreal. In the former, 
the prefents occafionally diftributed among the neigh¬ 
bouring Indian chiefs, are depofited as foon as they arrive 
from England; and prior to their being fent up the coun¬ 
try, they are infpedted by the commanding officer of the 
garrifon of Montreal, and a committee of merchants, who 
are bound to make a faithful report to government, whe¬ 
ther the prefents are agreeable to the contract. Oppofite 
La Chine Itands a village of the Cochenonaga Indians, 
containing a Roman-catholic church, built in the Indiaq 
ftyle, and ornamented with pidtures, lamps, &c. in fuch a 
manner as to attradt the eye as forcibly as poffible. The 
outward ffiow, and numerous ceremonies of the Roman- 
catholic religion, are particularly fuited to the capacities 
of the Indians. In this and all the other Indian villages 
fituated in Lower Canada, a great mixture of the blood 
of whites with that of the aborigines, is obfervable in the 
perfons of the inhabitants; there are alfo confiderabie 
numbers of the French Canadians living in thefe villages 
who have married Indian wives, and have been adopted 
into the different nations w-ith whom they refide. Many 
of the French Canadians bear fuch a clofe refemblance to 
the Indians, owing to their dark complexions, black eyes, 
and long black hair, that when attired in the Indian ha¬ 
bit, it is only a perfon intimately acquainted with the 
features of the Indians, that can diftinguifli the one race 
of men from the other. The difpofitibns of the two 
people alfo accord in a very linking manner; both are 
averfe.to a fettled life, and to regular habits of induitry,; 
ui both 
