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Show " :c Ufldjn( fenting the Stag °f" o > Yo e kil g d !h' N etherland Eaft-India-Company of oungm"‘o Phealanes gy ying tlam ted upon .thc oyal Cl(::;lf wersy, bul rare y well. the nexe mornin by br)ea .\hrgcnting cithe ban Iom_td the Eaft eol thele following are th EE ------- 9 ‘Governorts by the Agents of the young Canton Vice-Roy, he being gong fro home # order the making ofa Fence-work againft-the breaking in of the Y llo Ry<r This City 1sencompafled wich Flat and Morofe Lands, about 130 miles fro Tanjencien, fituated about the middle of the Royal Channel Fun, {o that al Veflels which ufe this Pafs, muft pay Cuftom both for Ship and Goods Itexceeds not-only all the other 26 fmall Cities fituated in the juri{di&ion of the forementioned Capital City, in number of People, greatnefs of Trade, and Gentry but allo the chief City it felf Amongft other ftately Edifices there are two famous Temples, richly adorned with great and fmall PiGures; on both fides o the Royal Channel are great Suburbs, full of People and Trade ; on bothfides o the Riverare alfo two great Sluces, which keep offthe out-water, which {ome times rifes {ix foot higher then the water within The Countrey round about this City lies low and plafhy, being full of Pool and Rivers, which abounds with Fith. Nearto Cao the twelfch fmall City is Lake called Lui, which fignifies the Thunder-Pool, in the middle whereof appears a.{tone, reprefenting a Dragon, with the head a Man. The Chinefes call thi _the Spirit of Thunder, and affirm that when any one firikes upon the Belly, h draws a hideous {found from the Monfter like Thunder - Near to the third {mall City Nynzyang, which is likewife under the comman of the Capital City Tengchen, and about two miles from Cining, runs a fmall Rive called Tao, out of which the Chinefes report, that the great Philofopher Confitins refufed to drink, though ready to dye of Thirft, becaufe it was called th water of Thieves; {ogreat an dverfion had this Ethnick Philofopher to the ver #ame of wicked Villany and Robbers on, AppE [z Up O 'de About this City we faw them catch Fith with a Bird, which they call.Loun?a and becaufe this way of Fifhing feems notable, apd no where ufed but ln.Cbzfm Town 3\(0 I here prefent you with the fhape of the Fowlinthe annexed Cut Touwais fomewhat lefs then a Goofe, andno This Bir very unlike toa Raven ; 1t has Bill like an Eagle Artificiall ver Boat {mal hav the manne th% afte lon{%\/fiictl;)e?:(tiflzylllfifl an River Chinefi th upo Sai the whic wit made of Reeds or Bamboes whenc fro Veflel th o out-fid uponth perchin Pc)ois, and place the Bir fh |