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Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions (1814)

Alexander, William, 1767-1816 · London, Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer · leaf 195

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e on the annexed engraving. Itrepresents a groupe of the common peasantry of the countryeating their rice. The particular employment of these,here designated., is that of tracking barges on the canals;the pieces of wood lying by them being those which theyplace across the chest to drag forward the… … aML*^

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