GENERAL INDEX. 
Vermillion, 282, 
Vinegar, procefles for making, 351 ) dif- 
tilled, 352 ; its properties, 353 ; u'l'es, 355. 
Vitrification, the higheft kind of fufion, 
189. 
Vitriol of Goflar, or white vitriol, 289. 
Uranium, 268. 
Urine, 170; the bafe of phofphorus, 199; 
its contents and properties, 365, 
Water, its nature and adtion, 155 ; may be 
de-compofed «nd re-sompofed, 1565 phe¬ 
A GRICULTURE highly efteemed and 
encouraged, 454 ; wheat, rice, pulfe, 
and tea, 473 ; watering, ploughing,, &c, 
487. 
Antiquity aiTumed by the Chinefe, 43 c; 
fir William Jones’s opinion upon it, 436 ; 
fir George Staunton's, 437. 
Architecture and Ihip-building, 467; bricks, 
475- 
Aftroncmy of the Chinefe, 464, 496 3 
eclipfe of the fun, 477. 
Beheading difgraceful in China, 452. 
Birds, infedts, and fifties, 44;. 
Botanical produdtions, 444, 488. 
Boundaries of China, 443. 
Britifh embafi'y to China, a detailed account 
of it, 468-498. See Esabafiy. 
Buildings and gardens, 462. 
Canton, the feat of commerce between the 
Chinefe and England, 497. 
Civil government, 448 ; balls of the laws, 
4505 as relating to flavery, 451 j police, 
452; drefs, 453, 4615 education, ibid, 
prifons, 490 ; adultery, 486. 
Commerce, little regarded by the Chinefe, 
46S ; its prefent ftate between the Eng- 
lifii and Chinefe, 497. 
Criminals, punilhment of, 4,1, 490. 
Cycle of fixty years, 437, 496. 
Dragon, why borne by the emperor in his 
banner, 436, 
Embafi'y from queen Elizabeth to China, 
469 3 colonel Cathcart fent out by his 
prefent majefty, but dies on his pafi'age, 
470; earl Macartney and fir George 
Staunton fet out, and arrive at Chu-fan, 
471 ; difeover two capes and an ifiand, 
472 ; the prefents they carried out, 473 ; 
arrive at Tien-fing, which is deferibed, 
473 ; difeover that the emperor is difi'a- 
tisfied with the Englifh, 476 ; arrive at 
Tor.g-choo-foo, 477; at Pekin, 478; 
difficu!tie_s arife about forms, 479 ; at the 
Great Wall, 480 5 at Zhe-hol, the em¬ 
peror’s refidence, 481 ; their public au¬ 
dience, 482 ; vilit the emperor’s gardens, 
483 j attend the birth-day feftival, 484; 
fet out on their return, 485; have ano¬ 
ther interview with the emperor, and 
foon after receive his anfwer to their re- 
quifitions, 486 ; arrive at Canton, 490 3 
arrive in England, 498. 
Emperors of China 1 Puon-ku the firft, 435 j 
nomena explained by the de-compofition 
of water, 157 ; folid, or ice, 205; liquid 
and gafeous, 206$ properties and de-com- 
pofrtion, 207 j re-compofrtion, 208 j fo- 
luble in air, 209 5 a non-condudtor of 
heat, ibid, aerated, 2103 Rabel’s, 348; 
fpirituous diftilled, 349 ; mineral, appa¬ 
ratus for preparing, 383. 
Wax, Spanilh, 338. 
Wheat, its peculiarities, 341, 
Whey, 359. 
CHIN A. 
dynafties till 1645 y ears a ft £r Chrift,438 ; 
the Chinefe race of emperors loft in Te- 
ping, and reftored in Chu, 441 ; finally 
loft after Whay-tfong, 442 3 the late em¬ 
peror, ibid. 482,4965 the prefent, 443. 
Emperor of China has abfolute power, 
and appoints his fuccefi'or, 446 ; celebra¬ 
tion of his birth-day, 484. 
Eunuchs, who have the care of the empe¬ 
ror’s women, 485. 
Feaft of lanterns, 462- 
Fo, this fedt brought to China from India, 
458 ; inventors of the metempfichofis, 
459 ; other dodtrines, and the practices of 
the priefts, 459. 
Fo-hi, his birth and hiftory, 436. 
Funerals and mourning, 436,4783 burial- 
place at Hen-choo-foo, 492. 
Gold, its ufes in China, 443. 
Great Wall, account of, 448, 480. 
Hindoos and Chinefe originally the fame 
people, 437. 
Hupilay, the Mogul emperor, 440; be¬ 
comes emperor of China by the name of 
Shi-tfu, 441, 
Jenghis Khan, chief of the Moguls, 439, 
Jefuits in China, 442, 464. 
Jews and Mahometans, 460. 
Infants, expofing of, 455. 
Jones, fir William, fuppofes the Chinefe em¬ 
pire to have been founded in the twelfth 
century before Chrift, 436 3 and that they 
are of an Indian race, 437. 
Kin Tartars fubdue China, 439 ; end of 
their reign, 440. 
Kitan Tartars, their reign in China, 438. 
Kyang-fliin, governor of Loyang, 439. 
Land-carriage with fails, 477. 
Languages and literature, 463. 
Mandarins, eight orders of, 446 5 of arms, 
447 ; duties of mandarins, 450 3 degraded 
mandarin, 455. 
Marriage and divorce, 450, 460 ; nuptial 
procefiion, 478. 
Medicine, ftate of in China, 466, 484. 
Military eftublilhment, 447, 4483 jour¬ 
nals, 455. 
Mines of filver, gold, and diamonds, 443. 
Mulic ?nd nautical inftrumehts, 466 3 the 
gong, and drum, 475. 
Names and extent of China, 435, 443. 
Painting and fculpture, 477. 
Paper, printing, &c. 465. 
9 ?r 
Wine, 347 ; fweet oil of, 349* 350. 
Woad, 345. 
Wolfram, 265. 
Wood, or the ligneous parts of vegetables, 
169. 
Woulf’s apparatus, 191, 374. 
Writers on chemiftry, 148. 
Yellow wood, 346. 
Zaft're, 270. 
Zinc, 2873 magnetical, 289. 
Zircone, or jargon, 221. 
Population, in 1761, 445; in 1793, 446* 
491 ; people regiftered, 453. 
Porcelain, 444, 460. 
Portuguefe, the firft Europeans who had an 
intercourfe with China, 468. 
Quadrupeds ill China, 444 ; fheep, 480. 
Religion, 455; facrifiees and altars, 4565 
temples, 457, 484; no fabbath obferved, 
457, 4S7 ; no national religion, 459 ; 
and the religion of the emperor is not 
generally followed, 485 ; no tax for main¬ 
taining priefts, 487 ; the Chriftian reli¬ 
gion at a low ebb, 497. 
Revenue derived from each province, 453 ; 
how adminiftered, 491. 
Rivers, lakes, and canals, 443. 
Ruffians, their commerce with the Chinefe, 
468. 
Shun-chi, founder of the prefent race of 
emperors, 442. 
Silk, infedts producing it, 445 ; manufac¬ 
tory of, 465. 
Song empire, 440; terminated, 441. 
Staunton, fir C-eorge, his opinion on the 
antiquity of the Chinefe empire, 437; 
conference with the Chinefe minifter, 
481; his defeription of the prefent cuf- 
toms, manners, drefs, amufements, &c. 
of the Chinefe, 490 & feq. 
Staunton’s Ifiand, difeovered in the Yellow 
River, during the Chinefe embafi'y in 
1793 ; fo named after fir George Staun¬ 
ton, fecretary to the ambafi'ador. 
Tao-fl'ee, account of that fedt, 457. 
Tartars conquer China, but adopt the man¬ 
ners and language of the Chinefe, 438’; 
yet force the Chinefe to cut off their hair, 
461; Kitan Tartars, 438 ; Kin Tartars, 
439; Manchoo Tartars, or prefent race 
of emperors, 442. 
Tchien-lung, the Great Emperor, recals the 
miffionaries, 442 ; his death, 443. 
Tea imported into England, 4713 manner 
of gathering it in China, 475. 
Theatrical amufements, 462, 485, 493 ; 
fire-works, 484. 
Tobacco cultivated, and fmoking very pre¬ 
valent, 480. 
Tribunals for civil and criminal affairs, 449. 
Women, how treated in China, 460,4773 
their feet, 460; drefs, 461, 490; dif¬ 
ference between the Chinefe qhd Tartars,) 
480 j the emperor's women, 486. 
END of the FOURTH VOLUME. 
