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Show Netberti;;;"gafl»l ndia- Companj Earth in great abundance, becaufe they knew not how :to emper the water which they alledged to be the only reafon why they could not i thoughI faw notthofe Cicies, Hoeichen, and ¥ 10chen, nor. ow thev digged thi Soil in-one place, and Purceline made thereof in another; yet will relate t youin {hort what account was given me by petfons of credit; refident in thi Village of ‘Ocienjen The Earth whereof this Purceline ismade, is digged in grear quantity out of th Mountains fituated near the chief City Hoeichen, inthe Province of Nanking from whence it is brought in four-fquare Clods to the above-mentioned Village whichhave the Emperours Arms ftamped upon them to prevent all manner o deceit. The FEarth is not Fat, like Clay, or Chalk, but like t our fine Sand, which they mingle with water, and fo make it it into four-fquare Clods. = The likewife beat and powder the broken China difhes, and make new ones of t em (but fuch as are made of broken Ware, never take {o fine 2 Colour and Glofs a thole whichare made of freh Mould) The Earthen Clods which are thus brough from the Mountains, are afterwards framed into what fathjons they pleafe, afte the {ame manner as our Potters in Enrope form their Farthen Ware Upon th great Pots which are made of this Earth, they have an Art to themfelves to Pain all manner of Creatures, Flowers, and Trees, which the ¢ Stapping, called V frzes n ware, lled Poyang 2 place full of Trad ptain flands (as isto b Te an The C offer up f edy pallag . the ord ount f terribl . Claw 1a They ofie .3 Com 1 vith :¢ 10i !t,‘jlfj3 put; ,btheunch cf damf :Jm:mo 1 the Villagc do very curioufly onl with Indico: This. Art of Painting upon the Pots is kept fo private and {ecret that they will not teach ittoany but to their Children and near Relations wherein the Chinefes are{o dexterous, that you cannot fhow them any thing, bu they will imitate it upon their Potsand Difhes, which being framed and madeo this Earth, are firft dryed in the Sun before they are baked inthe Oven an whenthey are throughly dryed, they are put into an Oven, and ftopt very clofe where they bake for fifteen days together witha good fire under : the time bein out, theyare continued in the Oven fifteen days more without any fire ; howeve the Ovenall that while is kept clofe ftopt, and not opened till it be quite cold for if they fhould take their Earthen warered-hot out of the Oven, it would endanger the breaking, and lofing their glofs After the expiration of thirty days the Furnace 15 opened in the prefence of an Officer appointed by the Emperou ~ to take a account of thi Earthen ware, and to receive the Emperour duty whichis of each fort the fifth piece, according to the Laws of the Kingdom ; th reft they afterwards fell to the Inhabitants of this Village ‘Ucienjen, where (a they fay) 1s the ftaple of this Purceline Trade, whichis fent from this Village, no only through all Chiza, butalfo through the whole world We departed the.fame day from this place, and upon the 26, cameto the clie City of Nankang, which lies upon the Weft-fide of this Lake, whichis very broa and long The gity‘is built upon a Mountainous Soil, about 50 miles from Nankang | The Walls of the City are both hig and ftrong, and are likewile fortified wit Bulwarks : Within the City ftands a well built Tower; the Streets are ver full of windings and turnings, whichmakes them very troublefom to fuch as uf them. The firft Street, which lies onthe left hand as you come in, has fevera - Triumphal Arches ftanding in it, very Artificially built, according to the Chinef fathion; but befide thefe Ornaments, there is nething rare in this City, for th .Houfesare but mean and {lightly built Yet in Profpe& of this chief City lye feveral ftately Temples, whereof th biggeftand chiefeft are builc upon the Mountains Quangli, Fucuxin: The Tnhabitants round about worfhip thefe Mountains, upon which dwell a great company of Priefts and Friers each Prieft and Frier has a lictle Hutch, where h daily Cruciates and Afflicts himfelf by Scourging and Difciplining his body ; en durin |