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Show h - 1 M&Lia) Cu, 7. Lunggan commands over three Cities, as Lunggan, Kiangyen, Xeciven, an Hock, 2 % Sinch & 4o ane, GC‘)"' P overf{everal Forts 8 SWu" I/}{c ] R25i80. Chimn dignity of Capital Cities, in regard of their largenefs and number of Inhabitants yet they do not enjoy that dignity, becaufe this. Province is to have no mor Capital Cities as Peking, and Nanking n $ Luxz' F e u , i"". Tl, l'w " uxuc' and g Q.‘ ha v S'ng The firft great City Tungchenen commands over eight other Cities; the fecon great City Muichew over four; the third great City Kiating over~{even 3 th SMCM fourth great City Kiung over three 5 the fifth great City Lincher over four 5 an £xan, Ciy;, Sce, an the {ixth great City Yaches commands likewife over four Cities The four chief Garrifon Cities are Tinchuen, Uninng, Ufa ' the Chinefe to the diguit . imamlal l This Country produces much Silk and other rich Commodities o tb(‘ To 'book Of h d ('ight)' nin wiry one hundre fig tho {ome places it 1s mountainous for Trees nor Vallies grows in other places of China is wild and good for nothing 5 from hence come likewife that incomparabl root €alled Rhubarb which the people of Tzbet an Mogary who drive the Trade in this Province, fend from thence to Europe. Her are likewife found two forts of Amber fiones, namely, the Red and Yellow The people here are very cunnin avhich laft is found alfo upon other Coafts in counterfeiting of Amber, which they do with fo much skill, that they fell i oftentimes for the right, it being impofiible to difcern it, being not much inferiour unto it either in fight or goodnefs Iron, Tiny and Lead, are likewif fetched from the Mountains in great quantities ; among which (the wonderis d leven hundred forty four are great ftore of Salt-pits, that produce {o much Salt, that the Inhabitants kno not how to {pend one third part of it HE The Toll-book wherein the numbe f in the Country That which this Province pays in Taxes to the Emperour yearly, confifts o fixt e, Stuchen, Chunking X '.':,, Kisngeity O ‘n%;flx g, Tinggwen and fixty bag of Rice, of fi A NG chen, Kz'.ngc/)eu, Toc*bcz:? Changxay Paoking, Hengchen, Changte, Xinchen, Fungchen, Chingtien, Chinchianyg ng hundre His Province of Hucang borders toward the North upon the Province o Honany North-weft upon Xenfr, Weftward upon Sucheny toward.the Sout upon Quangfy, South-welt upon Queichen, Eaftward upon Kiangfiyand South-caf upon Qrantung In this Province are fifteen brave Metropolifesy above a hundred fmall Cic; es anda world of Villages and Cottages, befide the Garrifon Towns and Forts The fifteen chief Cities are thefe, Vischang, Hanijang, Syangyang, Tegan, Hoang Si 7 fi The Seventh Kingdom of HU llfld)"'"g fix thoufan hundred forty nine thoufand one hundred feventy feven weight of Salt, befid other Taxes paid to his Imperial Majefty infome parts of this Province | [ Nanph, ngyw k La ping hundre of {eventy four thoufand eight hundred and fifty one pounds of Cottons, of on . on thoufand three hundred and thirty nine pounds of wroughtand unwroughe Silks, bang CCaa, Nuskiang .'M: one hundred an feventy Fighting men, without reckoning the Souldiers who are very numerou s he 1s fe fixty four thoufand one hundre twenty nine Families, and twenty two hundred four thoufan H-'cl?wardupon Ii » ' (bf'g of the people of this Country down, mentions no lefs then four hundre werchen but. yct it wants neiche from hence comes only the right radix China, or the China root, for that whic 1 thrs Country ; and Lafly Ilfl it is ver large and fruitful, having the great River of Kiang running quite through it 5 i wenty four hundre four s of Rice: twent thre gt Linnen 3 of nige tho of Slk; of three hund e and Chinhinng Befide which thereare 35 {mall Garrifon Cities and Forts CitCiteise, ag ac T Lixa x Mabn1s alone without havingany City under its command The great Cities are fix, Tungchenen, Muichen, Kiating, Kinng, Linchen, Tachen. Andthough thefe {ix great Cities might very well deferve the name an . | mep ‘{ ..‘ ;Mg, Mengc,'" N etherland Ed/ZaIndia-Compan) 1. V m‘b.m The Situatio of Hucang |