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China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)

Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792, Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 101

An illustration from China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary, 1812, leaf 101
sobserved every year at a fixed period.The whole empire is illuminated fromone extremity to the other, and in all thevarious modes which imagination cansuggest. The lanterns are frequently made oftransparent paper, or gauze, but moreoften of horn, so fine, so pellucid, thatforeigners, at first… … ? M ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 75 TARTAR SOLDIERS GOING TO MOUNTGUARD AT THE PALACE GATES. According to the notes given to LordMacartney by the mandarin Van-Ta-Gin,the Chinese army amounts to a millionfoot, and eight hundred thousand horse;but this may be the nominal strength,supposing every regiment…

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