the Chinefe in'-the feventh century, -while the Phenicians had difcovered
Britain at leaft four centuries before Chrift ; “but it was .not till the fourteenth
cêntùiy that they became .tributary to China.- .The ‘emperor
Kahg-hi, about A. D. 1720, ordered - a temple to be erected to Confucius
in the chief ifland, with a literary college. The language is fkid ta
differ from,that of China or Japan;' but the civilization feems to have
proceeded from the latter country, as the Japanefe characters are 'coin-*
monly ufed. The people areunüd, afFabfe, gay, and temperate : and
the chief products are fulphur, copper, tin, with ihells, «and mother of
