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Tas. (Sings.) 
Wang-ta-niang comes out of her fewing- 
room 3 
For fhe has heard a Pu-kang calling in the 
ftreet. 
She ope’s both the wings of the door.—Yes ! 
truly, it is a Pu-kang! 
Cheu. (Sings.) 
T come to fee if you have e’er a pot tomend. 
O come hither with your pretty little pipkin, 
And foon V’ll repair it.—You’re my firft cuf- 
tomer to-day. . 
| Yan. (Sings. ) } 
How many cfens* doft demand for a large pot, 
And‘ how many double cfens for a {mall one ? 
Cheu. (Sings.) 
For a large pot a hundred and twenty cfens, 
And fifty double cfens fora {mall one. 
Tan, (Sings. 
A hundred andtwenty cfieas, and fifty double 
ones ? 
If nine or ten Tadd thereto, I may purchafe 
me a new pot. 
Cheu (Sings.) 
Surely fome unlucky fprite muft have met me 
early this morning ; 
As I cannot find any one who will employ 
me. 
Come, my Tiaoetan '—Let us march on ! 
(Calis aloudj—Pu-kang ! Pu-kang ! 
Tan. (Sings. ) 
I muft call the Pu-kang back again.—Holla ! 
Friend ! 
Perhaps we may be able to firike a bargain: 
JPil.give a hundred cfens for the large, 
And forty double c/ens for the fmal1] pot. 
Cheu. (Speaks. ) 
A hundred cfens, and forty double ones ? 
Tan. (Singing.) 
At that rate you folks earn a deal of money. 
Wang-ta-niang walks in firft. 
~ Cheu. (Sings. ) 
And after her follows mafter Pu. kang. 
( Speaking.) Ifalute you, gracious lady !— 
bleflings on you behind and before! 
Tan. (Speaking.) 
I thank thee ! I thank thee ! 
to thee all the year round. F 
Cheu. (Speaking. ) 
Will you bring me hither your pipkin ? 
Tan. 
Good luck 
Here it is. 
Chew. 
O dear! the pipkin is mof fhockingly 
crackt. 
Tan. 
When one ufes them, they break, 
Cheu. 
True—they are fpoiled by frequent ufe.—I 
fhould be much obliged to you if you would 
be gracioufly pleafed to give me a cup of tea. 
Tan. (Speaking.) 
Tll bring you one immediately. 
* Small brafs or copper coins, about 680 of 
which are equivalent to a Spanifh dollar. 
Account of Canibridge 
{ Feb. "a 
(Sings. ) 
Wang-ta-niang goes into her fewing-room, 
And prepares her toilette for dreffing. 
When fhe drefles her hair, a black cloud co- 
vers the fun; 
On each fide fhe fixes the fhining hair-pin : 
She puts on an under-garment of red-flowered 
filk 35 
And over it a white upper-garment of gauze, 
Embroidered with the flower Hay-tang. 
She likewife takes white Jing, and wraps it 
round her neat little feet, 
Which are inclofed in a flowered fhoe, of only 
three inches. ‘ 
When the walks, vernal gales feem to blow 
o’er the meads : 
And fitting the feems a fcented taper in the 
temple of Tien. 
Cheu. (Sings.) 
With uplifted head here I fit, and gaze atthe 
maiden twice eight years of age, 
Her hair refembles a black cloud, 
That intercepts the light of the fun. 
At each fide are flowrets formed of jewels. 
Her body isclothed in red large-flowered ding, 
Anda gown of white gauze, embroidered 
with the Hay-tang. 
She took the white /img, and wound it round 
-her little feet, 
Which dre inclofed in fhoes only three inches 
in fize. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, , 
HE infertion of ‘Topographical 
Sketches in various numbers of your 
initruétive Mifcellany, has contributed 
much fo excite a fpirit of mutual inquiry 
among the inhabitants of different places, 
of liberal coniparifon between their re- 
{pective manners, imperfections, and ad- 
vantages, and confequently of local and 
general improvement. In return for the. 
pleafure a perufal of thefe fketches has af- 
forded me, allow me to prefent you with 
fome particulars refpecting a place, which, 
- though of fuch vatt importance in forming 
the religious and political, as well as the 
literary character of this country, has 
never yet received any defcriptive notice 
in your pages. 
Cambridge, the Camboritum of the Ro- 
mans, the Grazta of academics, and the 
feat of one of the moft celebrated univer- 
fitics in the world, is fituated on the river 
Cam, over which it has feveral bridges. 
The town was incorporated in the year 
1101, by Henry 1; but the univerfity, as 
a feminary of learning, was founded much 
earlier, viz. in the year 630, by Sigebert, 
king of the Eaft Angles. Others take 
its origin itill farther back, and fay that 
it was founded by Cantaber,. a Spaniard, 
279 Years, 
