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Show The EmBassy of th e four wi ar {q fo l o m c m fo an hi fa Citics in China are built after on broad and high Walls, adorned with quadruple Towers, placed at an equal di runsa dee c wh u ab n ro nc fi Mote , and that alf 3 Tr is furrounde Each City has a double Gate, and two doubl "withaMud or Earthen Wall L Doors, whereof the firft ftands dire&tly over againft the {econd, that there is n J though you ftand 1n the firft : Betwixt thefe tw {eeing through the laft Gates, opens moft commonly a large Court, where they Dilcipline their Militia Upon the Gatesare likewife buile Great Watch-Towers where the Souldier keep night Sentinel. Molt of the Cities have very great Suburbs bc]onging t Witheut the Battlement them, which are as full of people as within the Wall each Metropolis hatha delightful Plain, curioufly adornedwith Towers, Trees and other Embellifhments moft pleafant to the Eye firh feve e The Country every wher {warms with people, {o that wherefoever you travel, you fhall meet continuall Childre an Women Men o Crowd wit worl th o part othe al excee t onl As now thefe 13 Kingdoms {cem no be for the number of moft rare Edifices and Rich Cities, fo they are likewife no lef abounding in People ; forthe moft Populous Country of all Exrope ftands not i competition with this rle Fal Thofke that will take the pains to look into the Chinefe Pole or Regifter-Books wherein is exactly {et down the number of. the People of each Province (‘excep thofe of the Royal Family} will find chat it amounts to the number of 58 millions, gooand forty thoufand, two bundred and 84 Perfons; neither need yo wonder which way this can be made out ; for every Mafter ofa Family is oblige upona great penalty to hang out a lictle board over his door, upon which he muf {et down the number of his Houfhold, and their condition, @~c. . And to preven all fraud, one is appointed over every tenth houfe, whom they call Titang, whic Ta upo fam the Mark and w wells for th very fignifiesthe Tenthman or Tyther His Office confifts in taking an account o the number of the perfons upon the board; and if the Mafter of the Family fai to make that known truly, he is to acquaint the Governour of the City with th abufe Pot Caal fands Houf Having {poken thus much of the Situation, Divifion, and Extent of China; fhall add in fhort what thefe fiftcen Provinces pay Annually in Taxes one wit another ; as alfo how many Capital, Great, Little, and Garrilon Cities are in eac of the Ten And lafily, what each Province, Divilion, or Shier disburfet In yearlyin Taxes to the Emperour of China No man pofleflesa foot of Land in all this Empire wichout paying to'th The 1 Emperour fomething out of it 5 {o that we need not wonder, that over and abov the common expences which are-made upon the account of Petty Kings, Vice Roys, and Military Officers, there are more then threefcore Millions of Crown S inki The whole fumme amounts to « 5 Millions of Crowns, whereof he cannot difpole as he pleafeth, but the Money i brough into the Treafury And if th Kin at any time defires a {upply, i - writing to the Treafurer he isnot to deny the payment of it The Revenu The Provinces bring in yearly in Taxes 32 millions 2 hundred 7 thoufand fou by Taxes hundred and 47 bags of Rice ; and one bag is enough to {erve 100 men for on day. 40 hundred g thoufand nine hundred 49 pounds of Raw Silk. 71 hundre 2 thoufand four hundred and 36 Rowls of Cloth made of Hemp. 63 thoufan {even hundred and 70 Bales of Cottons. 1 hundred 91 thoufand feven hundre and 30 Rowls of wrought Silk. But the City of Huchen buys off thisTax yearl for the {um of five hundred thoufand Crowns The Provinces bring in likewife 1 million 7 hundred 94 thoufand two hundre and 6 1 weight of Salt ; each weight is to be reckoned at one hundred twenty an fou brought yearly into the Emperours Coffers Cofa F fHX fho, Tul Kiai, |