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xxviii with walls, having embrasures, or loop holes in them, through which the soldiers fire their arrows or musket-shot.

The Cati is a Chinese weight equal to sixteen taels or ounces, each of which is equivalent to an ounce and a quarter troy weight. (Poids de marc.)

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Authors who have written concerning China have ventured to assert, that no such tree exists in the country; but M. Van Braam speaks of them too frequently for any doubt to remain on that head.

The Reader is also referred to the second vol. of the Memoires Chinois, quarto edition, page 529, where it is called the Nammou of the Chinese. (Fr. Ed.)

A generical word, which indicates a piece of board or tablets inscribed with the name of any one, or with some title designating him, to which the same honours are paid that he would have a right to expect in person.

A petition or memorial addressed to a tribunal, or to a person invested with any authority whatever, no matter on what subject, and even a common letter, is also a Chap.

A Chinese measure of three kinds, viz. the Mandarin's Cobido; the merchant's Cobido; and the carpenter's Cobido. The last is meant as often as the word Cobido is employed in this work. It is equivalent to fourteen French Inches, wanting a line. (Fr. Ed.)