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Show ' - EE S T S i o e === B i eT R Upon the 29. of April, we came un o the moft Famous City of Kinunga by fome Kiegan, and is the ninth Prime C ty of this Province of K iangfi: Thi chiet City lies about forty miles from Tayko, bui t upon the Weftern fide of th River Can, not far from the place where thof terrible and dreadful CIliffs calle Xepatan, dilcover themfelves ; abou a mile and a half the circumference is ded with tal] Battlements, and famous fo the defence which fhe made againf the Tartarsy when beleaguer'd ; boafting alfo for erly of very ftately Stru&ures but now generally ruined and deftroyed by he Enemy, only fome few Ido Temple remaining. On the left fide over againft the C ty, lies an Ifland, wher ftaa cu ri ous Temple, modern built, and hung round bout with great an {mall Images The Countrey round about this City is full o Hills and Dales, in which ar faid to be Gold and Silver Mines ; but the Chinefe to dig forany, only they are permitted to take hat of either they can find upo the fides of the Rivers. Thefe parts are al o pregnant and delightful 5 for in this Country (which is feldom known in other places there is no want of Wacer neither Winter nor Summer, nor too much drought Near to Ganto the 5. {mall City of this great one, a m Nucung, lifts her head towards the Clouds, and is a remarkable for bignefs as an inthofe parts Mot of the Chinefe Rivers are very dangerous, bein fo precipitate, all Veffel are liable almoft to continual attacques,and {udden f rprizals of Rocks,Banks,an Shoals in Ambufh ; fo that the Mafters ought to be sk lful and circum{ped in thei Steerage from Port to Port : but the River Cani near this City moft hazardous there refiding thofe unmerciful Bilgers called Ze atane hither take commonly more expert Pilots, who are by uftom better acquainte with the fixed Rocks, and il varying and unfetled Sh als .- The Inhabitants of this place and the adjacent p rts, recounted to us with muc regret and relutation, how barbaroufly they had b en ufed by the Tartars, burn.ing and defiroying their Houfes, carrying many int unredeemable Slavery ~others put to Death with rare and exquifite Tortures no difcrimination either of Sex or Age 5 and when they had Glutted their Sa vage inclinations with Ruin and- Plunder, they exercifed their more Inhuman Cruelty upon innocent Viggins, of whom four thoufand, all choice and fing lar Beauties, they carried int Captivity, and there for inconfiderable fums {old hem to make Bawds and Madams ofPlealure-Houfes, there proftituting to be compre t and devirginated b libidinous Courtiers, deboift Hectors, for their ow profit, at what price foeve they pleafed to putupon them That{ame day we made fuch good {peed, that we g t beyon Kiexui, th fourth {fmall Town of the ninth chief City called Kiegan We paft by this place which liesupon the right fide of the River Chang, an is in circumference a mil anda half, furrounded with Hills, and built after the C inefe fathion with Ido Temples : on the Water fide ftands a ftrong Wall fifteen oot high The next day, being the 20, of April, we-paft by Ki kia, the fourth fmall Cit of the eighth chicf Metropolis Liukiang : This Cit lies about thirty mile fro Kiexuke, at the bottom of the Mountains, and upo the North-fide qf the Rive Can, which waters this City, to the greataccomodatio of the Inhabitants Th g - sondi SREEIE The Empassvy of th |