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Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672 / An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China: delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby
(1673)
[Kircher appendix] Chap. II. Of the political government of the Chineses., pp. 403-404
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+ Pounds of Of24 oWIcc 18087 929057 47703544850 42000, 8121191 92:8 115147491 4144771 54990 3824290 t675591 6339 I i 149177 516600 17977l I S8 .Litaxgjg natl tirteen Metro- politan Citiesand fixty two others under them. 9. Nanking, or jiang, hath fourteen Metropolitan Cities, and under them a hundred others. io. chekihng bathclevcngrcat j Cities, andfixtytwoothers fubjeI 1242135 525470 88311 2574 870449 44476 unto them. It abounds in Silk. TI. )Fokien hath eight Metropo- litan Cities, and unto them fortyj 509200 i8o2677 101777 0 eight others. I 1 2. juantng, vulgarly Caxten,f 56o10 338 hath ten Metropolitan-Cities, unto'. 483360 1978o2 o7 3738 which are fubje& feventy three.7 I tropolitan Cities, and fubjea to 186719 154760 431359 thefe above a hundred others. i . ")ueicheu hath cight Metro- politan Cities) andtothefeten 0- 45305 231365 47658 56965 ther are fube¢t. 15, ,urnan hath twelve Me- tropolitans, and underthem eighty 13z958 1433110 1400568 fcur' Cities. CHAI I R*,CHE9 'S ants throughout the whole E s, not accounting the Empero d the Revenue was efltimated under the Regency of this Em in the Audit, it far exceeds; a rable of the annual Incomes China, paid into the Exchequ ontain'd in every one of them have extraaed out of Artin oning the Emperor's etinue, toget le Empire, excepting Tolls and C Chinefes, in the Tear that the Empi us and others.
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