The Modern Traveller (Volume 4); Being a Collection of Useful and Entertaining Travels, Lately Made Into Various Countries the Whole Carefully Abridged Exhibiting a View of the Manners, Religion, Government, Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce of the (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: bje as any other under the fun ; and this not from partial accounts, but greatly from die reafon of the tiling. ." 1 he accounts here extracted of the people of Canton, their induftry, numbers, and agriculture, are very curious and entertaining, and in feveral inllan- ces offer Europeans a leflbn which much deferves their attention. SAILOR's chapter{Section 4Sailor's- Lette:ks,. Written to his Friends in Eigland, during. his Voyages and Travels in Europe,, Asia, Africa, and America,. From the Year l754,. to I759. CAPTAIN EDWARD THOMPSON. AFTER a tedious confinement to fky and water, the eye was eafed at laft with the fight of; a fhip bound to you,- by which you had my tirll letter, and the melancholy detail of. a young lady failing: overboard.. Our paflage to Madrafs has not exceeded four months from England-. I never felt fo plea- ling a fenfation as on my firft beholding the ifiand of Zeylon, where all the beauties of nature are collect- ed for the recreation of mankind. In pafting this. ifland it is impoffibls to conceive how the fragnnee of the land-breeze revives our fcurvy fpirits : I fmelt- this fifteen leagues, but no other land in the world, which may be attributed to the aromatic mrubs and trees which abound here; The cinnamon which the Dutch da not expart, they burn, and being afterwards thrown into the fea, it covers the furface for leagues, like tanner's bark. Notwithstanding this ifland lies fo near the continent of India, and is fo abundantly fruitful in every tiling, and crowned with eternal verdure, yet the main is a fterile, fandy foil. Madrafs is our principal fettlement on the coaft of Coromandel, and is li! u a ted three hundred paces from the fea, in latitudeij N. It 'iSrby much the moft healthful place w poflefs in this part of India,...