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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), Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 65

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 65
ey are thenthrown into the river, as useless, andfloat about in great numbers. The duck-catchers, in like manner, conceal theirheads in these earthen jars, and approachtheir aquatic game, which have no notionof fear, and suffer themselves to be caughtwithout the least resistance. In the back-ground… … ©a 1 i ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 45 LEU-TSE, THE FISHING CORMORANT-OTHER KINDS OF FISHING. The cormorant of China is, according toLinneeus, a bird of the pelican tribe, Pe-lecanus Sinensis. It differs materiallyfrom another cormorant, Pelecanus Carbo,which is found on almost all the Eu-ropean coasts.…

Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792 · Costume

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