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T is indigenous in China, where no less than sixty-three distinct species are known. See Memoires Chinois, vol. ii. of the quarto edition, page 623.

In a work written by Father, a Jesuit, intitled, Description Geographique de la Chine, and qupted by the Histoire Générale de la Chine, par Mailla, redigée par Grasier, in the 13th vol. of the quarto edition, it is said that the Chinese sailing barrows, or waggons, are a fiction. It would require, however an extravagant degree of scepticism to doubt of their existence, after what the Author relates, and the engraved plan of one that is added to the drawings, of which a notice will be found at the end of the Second Volume.

The bean of which mention is several times made in this work, and which furnishes the Chinese with a kind of juice or