up to a great height, and conveyed to the different plantations in
pipes o f bamboo. This province is remarkable for its vail commerce,
opulence, and population, and alfo forits amazing fertility.
O r a n g e s ; Among the vegetable produdlions, it is fliftinguifhed for its
fine oranges; one is very large, and its rind quite loofe to the
pulp, which has the tafte and fmell of the mufcadine grape.
This kind is candied, and fent to all parts o f the empire ; another
is of a deep red; and a third very fmall. China is the native
place o f oranges, from whence they were communicated to the
weftern world.
Li-cm F r u i t . T h e Li-chi and Long-yrcen are fruits peculiar to the more
fouthern parts o f this empire, o f moft exquifite flavor, efpecially
the firit, which has o f late years been moft fuocefsfully introduced
into Bengal.
A-mwy. Hyamen, or the port o f A-mwy, is an excellent road for ihips,
in a deep bay, beneath the Shelter o f the ifle o f A-mwy, in Lat.
24” 27'. The ifland is flat and morally, and garrifoned by about
fix or feven thoufand men. Before the prohibitory edift it was
much frequented by European ihips. The Dutch, about the year
1645, made a treacherous attempt on the place ; they came with
five ihips, and landed about three hundred men,, who entered
the towm ; the greater part of the inhabitants fled, but cunningly
left in their ho.nfes abundance of Spirituous liquors ; this proved
the bait they intended. The Dutch intoxicated themfelves to a
great degree ; o f this the fugitive citizens had notice 4 they returned,
furprifed the invaders in their fleep, and put them all to
the fword. The Cbinefe have preferved the hiiiory in large
chara&ers, on the face of a fmooth rock near the entrance o f the
harbor.
On
On the ifle o f A-mwy is a vail rocking ilone o f forty ton? R o c k in g S t o n e .
weight, moveable by the flight;ft touch. Whether it is treated
with fuperftitious.refpeiSi, as the Britons did their Loggan-Jipne,
Hamilton (Joes not inform US. . A Hone o f this kind is found ip.
Cachemire, which the Mullahs or priefts fay. is moved by the
miraculous power of the faint to whom it is dedicated,;
T he great iil.mil of Fonnqja, or Ta-zcan as it is called by the X4reop
Cbinefe, lies off the. B®aft o f Fqo-tpbien,- at tke.4ift.4nce of about
fixty miles from the neareft place. The length is ninety leagues,
the greateft breadth ahout thirty. It is o f a curyated form, with
the convexity facing the continent; the t-rppic o f Cancer paffes
oyer it,.at the diftaoce o f a hundred and five,miles -from the
fouthern .end, almoft dividing it in equal parts,, It is very Angular,
that notwithftanding its proximity i t was unknown to ,the
Cbinefe till the year 1430, when a eu.nuch.of that nation, returning
from the weft,was driven there byatempeft. This was not immer
diately productive o f any confequences, nor did his countrymen
profit o f the difcoyery before the ¡aft century, when, in the reiga
o f the emperor Kang-Hi, it was invaded by the famous Coxingq,
who conquered at laft the wefter.n part, not for. the empire ,q£
Gbina, but for himfelf. At that time-the kings of SgangAung
and Eoo-tchien had revolted from the empire. As foon as their
rebellion was quelled, Kang-hi, in 1683, was put in pofleffion.of as
much of Formofa.as the young defcendant of Coxinga had power
to yield.
T he Japanefe Seized on this ifland about the year 1620.
The Dutch, in their way from Japan, about the year 1633 made
here a Settlement. The manner of. obtaining it, and their future
expulfion,