An Historical, Geographical, and Philosophical View of the Chinese Empire: Comprehending a Description of the Fifteen Provinces of China, Chinese Tartary, Tributary States; Natural History of China; Government, Religion, Laws, Manners and Customs, Literature, Arts, Sciences, Manufactures, &cJ. Ridgeway, 1795 - 549 Seiten |
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Seite 273 - When carried over fteep rocks, where no horfe can pafs, it is about fifteen or twenty feet high, and broad in proportion; but, when running through a valley, or...
Seite 273 - This wall (our author adds) was begun and completely finished in the short space of five years ; and it is reported, that the labourers stood so close for many miles, that they could hand the materials from one to another. This...
Seite 395 - ... it. The counterfeit hams of China *— have been often mentioned. They are made of a piece of wood cut in the form of a ham, and coated over with a certain kind of earth which is covered with hog's skin. The whole is so curiously painted and prepared, that a knife is necessary to detect the fraud.
Seite 415 - ... be extremely thin and delicate. When it is dry, the colour is laid on pretty thick, not on the outfide, as is generally done, but on the infide. The figures painted upon it, for the moft part, are fifhes, as being more analogous to the water with which the veflel is filled,.
Seite 204 - Chinefe have conftructed a double glacis of large ftones, or rather, two inclined planes, which unite in an acute angle at their upper extremity, and extend on each fide to the furface of the water. If the bark is in the lower canal, they...
Seite 300 - ... in 1762; and the centre of commerce betwixt the two nations is now at Kiatka. Here the trade is entirely carried on by barter. The Ruffians are prohibited from exporting their own coin ; finding it more advantageous to take goods in exchange than to receive bullion at the Chinefe ftandard.
Seite 379 - Diligence, follows, and keeps continually beating the image with a rod, to make it advance. Labourers, armed with...
Seite 20 - Se-chwen furnimed with good troops and generals. Though they were always beaten, being greatly inferior in number to their enemies, yet they generally retook the cities the Moguls had reduced, as the latter were commonly obliged to withdraw for want of provifions and forage.
Seite 214 - It is called hoa becaufe it is glutinous, and has a great refemblance to foap. Porcelain made with hoa-che is very rare, and much dearer than any other. It has an exceeding fine grain, and, with regard to the painting, if it be compared with that of the common porcelain, it appears ta fin-pals it aa much as vellum does paper.
Seite 234 - Thefe buildings contain a great ' number of fmall ftoves railed about three feet * high, each of which has a broad plate of iron ' fixed over its mouth. The workmen are feated * round a large table covered with mats, and * are employed in rolling the tea-leaves which * are fpread out upon them. When the iron * plates are heated to a certain degree by the ' fire, they cover them with a few pounds of ' frefh-gathered leaves, which, being green and * full of fap, crackle as foon aSithey touch the