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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 138

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 138
sentative signs of commercialvalues. Gold is regarded merely as a valuablematerial, the intrinsic worth of whichis susceptible of the fluctuation of com-merce. Its price, relatively to silver, isless than in Europe; so that the mer-chants who bring to Canton ingots ofsilver to exchange for ingots… … ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 97 is spread throughout the country is eitherderived from foreign commerce, or fromthe native gold which is collected in thesand of rivers. Silver is not coined into money: it iscast into cakes or ingots of differentsizes, which are cut for the purposes ofpayments. The…

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