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12 longest day in the North is about two months, and the shortest in the South nine hours and three quarters. The people are rude and barbarous, their food is horse-flesh, and live in tents and open fields. The religion is Paganism in the North, and Mahometism in the South. They never speak to the Cham, who is an absolute monarch, but on their knees with their faces towards the ground; his subjects stile him the Shadow of God, he looks upon himself as the monarch of the whole world; Every day after he has dined, he causes a trumpet to sound thereby giving leave to the Kings and Princes of the earth to go to dinner.Their chief commodities are sable, martins, silk, camblets, flax, musk, cinnamon, and rhubarb.

Of CHINA.

This is thought to be the most populous country in the world; the air cold but temperate, and the soil so very fruitful, that they have two or three harvests in a year. The longest day is fourteen hours three quarters, and the shortest ten hours three quarters. It abounds in silver, diamonds, quicksilver, porcelane,