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Pekin, uniformity o f - - 101
— , hotel of the Britiih Embaffador
in - - 103
—— , appearance of, from Hai-tien ib.
— — , hue and cry raifed in - 120
—- -, gazette o f 391
— —, contrafted with London - 420
r—r— t prices o f provifions in - 549
, buildings and population of,
compared with thofe o f London 581
Peroufe de la, his account o f a people
refembling Chihefe - ' . - 44
Pilots, difficulty of procuring them at
Chu-fan - ' " 5®
Plants, in Pe tche-lee - - 493
■ , near Hang-tchoo-foo - “ 5 Z5
—------, near Canton - - 601
Plough, ceremony of, compared with
the IJta - - 487
Poetry - • - - 280
Polarity o f the magnet known to the
Scythians - - 41
Police o f Pekin * - - 100
Polo Marco, valuable feftimony o f 35
Polygamy an evif of fmall extent 147
Population of floating craft - - 84
—---- -----and extenit of China 575
— ■ ....— compared with thofe o f
Great Britain - - 576
— ----- - as given by Father Am lot -582
Populoufnefs of China, caufes o f 587
Poor laws, none - - 401
Porcelane ' - - - 304
Portraits o f a Chinefe and Hottentot 50
—------- among the prefents, difficulty
reipedting <* - 114
Portugue/e mimonary, intrigues o f 18
Tofiure-mafiers, feats o f - 204
Potatoes a certain crop - - 585
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Poverty of the Chinefe - “ 495
Predeftination - - 454
Prefent of t,he governor of Tentchoofoo • 65
Prefent o f the officers, dep.utgd from
court - 67
Prefs, liberty of, -in China - 392
Prince o f the blood, anecdote of 182
Printing - ~
Proceßion from Tong-tchoo to Pekin 85
—- — - o f - - - 146
Property not fecured by law - 177
—■----- laws refpe&ing - - 379
Prophecy, folly o f being guided by - 456
Puift - - - 345
Punijbments, capital, not frequent - 378
Puppet-fhew deferibed - - - 20t
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Quacks, tricks of - 347
—------ , great pefts in England - 465
Quarries o f ftone - - 598
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Red-book, Chinefe - - 403;
Religion, primitive, of China - 450
----- ------------— , no longer e,xifts 486
Religious opinions, difficult fometimes.
to explain. . - - 42.3
Revenues - ’ _ . 403
— ■ - ■— application of them - 407
• - - ■ - veffels to collejft them - 334
Rice erroneoufly fuppofed to caufe opthalmia
- - - 351
the ftaffiof-life in China 547’
-■-7“ mill for cleaning - - 565
a precarious £rap - - ^gg
Road from Tong-tchoo to Pekin - 01
Roads neglected in China - - 513
Romans,
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Romans, amphitheatres of
224 Surgery, flate o f 353 Ruffia and China compared 3H . Sumatrans of Chinefe origin
52
Shuord blades of Gill much:admired
1*3 S Swdn-pan - _ 296
Sabbatical inftitution, none in China 154
Sacrifices. 509V T
Salt, flacks of, near Tien-fing 78 Tan, or Chinefe altar 45 2
— remarks on- the ufe of 5 10 Tao-tze, ©r immortals, fe«5l of 466
Salutation, mode of 108 Tapers burnt on altars 481
—--------- , expreffions of, mark a na- Tartar women, drefs of’ ■ 97 tiorral charadler 189- -------Mantchoo, fcarcely diftinguiih-
Samenefs throughout China 5 able from Chinefe ' - . . . 184
Savages,. cuftom of maiming' ttie hu- Tartary, heights of, remarks on 438
man body among 73 Tafie . . _ S3!
Scenic reprefentations'of the Rom ans 224 Taxes, moderate 400
Scythians probably acquainted with •r——, fixed 402-
the polarity bf the magnet 40 Tcho-ka, an ifland in the Tartarian
Scorpion, remarkable circumftance con- fea - 44
cefningr.one ¡ | | f 114 Tea a fuppofed preventive o f certain
Scott, Dodlor, faves a man from be.
diforders __ ^ 35°
ing-buried alive l i l i 165 7>«-plant, trick played by the ChiSculpture
¡ S i 328 nefe concerning- 3 - _ 538
Seres not the fame as Chinefe- - 436^ ------, obfervations on the culture of 572
Shing moo, or holy mother” 473 Temple, Embafly lodged in a - 421
Ships o f the Chinefe 37 --------, in a cavernous rockr 596
Silk, probably known to the ancients 437 Terrace-{qftem of agriculture S3©
— -, cult-ivation Of ÈM; 5 7 1 Ten choo-foo, prefent-of thè” governor
Simplicity the leading feature o f the o f - - - ' 65
Chinefe 312 Tien fingi appròaeh'to the- city ;of 7*
Skating, amufement of |p f ; 21 I Tingrhai, vifit to the city .o f’ 5 7 '
Small-fox, when introduced” 3 8 45O Ting-nan-tching, name o f the Chinefe-
Snake, bite of, how cured 348 compafs • 40
Societyf ftate of- 1 | P ISS 77//£«g-,-Dutch Embaflador to Pekin - 9
-------, domeftic 15I Towers of the walls of Pekin 9 1
Soffala, Chinefe found at 45 Trackers o f the yachts prefled into
Song o f Moo-lee-wha • - 316 this fervice . - 162
Streets of Pekin 94" Trade .difcouraged 399
Steam, effeéts of, known to the Chi- -----how condtnfled at Canton 610
nefe - » 298 Tranquillity, internal 395
«S»gw-mills - - 539 Travellers fee objects differently 3
Suicide feemingly encouraged - 178 Trecfon puniihable in the 9th -generation 372
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