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31 Aug. 1804
References to Books.

Barrow's Travels in China

5 Chinese Oaths
67 Bulk heads
69 Yachts described
100 Madrid Physicians interested agt cleanliness
139 Women not witnesses in Scotland 169 Surgical assistance unsuccessful punished as murder. 178 Chinese Liars. 292 Science concealed from interest by Missionaries
300 Body of Chinese laws in England
360 401 Public Magazines universal.
478 Ancient Jew Colony with Hebrew Bibles
492, 494, 522, 524, 529, 535, 536, 537, 538, 546, 556, 564, 594, 601, Plants.
540 Molasses used to preserve fruits.
548 Floating Onion Garden
558 Ducks obey a Whistle.
562 Interest from 12 (legal) to 36.
564 Manure solicited for. 568 Fruit Trees mode of propagating.
594 Coal Dust & Clay. 178 Encourage Suicide.
397 Rent 1/10 of product. Emperor sole proprietor of the soil. 398 No Game laws. Famine every 3 years.
399 Tonnage for Inland trade equal to that of all the rest of the world.
400 Taxes on each man 4d/ yr.
401. No beggars or poor laws.
402 Taxes uniform – Land Tax pd in kind. Revenue 60 Million 1&d/ China = 3d/ in Engl.
403 Emperor sells his Jewels.
402 Peace Estab. of Soldiers 1,800,000.
414 Tartar language gaining ground.


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Barrow's Travels in China

421 No Inns
424 Language lost in 3 yrs by Scotchman among Kaffers.
493. Make no butter or Cheese. 498. Never bury within a Town.
540. Water Wheels without attendance & made solely of Bamboos raise 150 Tons of Water 40 ft in 24 hrs.
567. 1/4 swampy.
576. 1,279,999 sq. miles = 830,719,360 acres – 333 Millions people – 266 persons to a sq. mile.
618 Vicarious punishment in case of intentional homicide.

Adams Lrs on Silesia. 25 Apr. 1804

'Till the 16th century the
Silesians recd, the final
in litigation cases, the final
sentence from a foreign
tribunal or college. 275.

For rating the land tax
Frederick employed a
small no. of officers to
make an accurate valuatn
of all the lands in the province,
& of the incomes
proceedg from them. This
work was accomplished in
two yrs time & is asserted
to be one of the most exact &
detailed valuatns ever made. 319

In Frederick's time the income
was 1/3 1,000,000 the value
of the lands 13 do. 321.

Stamp taxes unexceptionable. 327

A Ducat is more than
a Silesian Peasant can
command to enfranchise
himself. 344

The whole rural pt of
Silesia is districted out, under
the regulatns of the govt, into
societies of mutual insurance,
from which ev'ry farmer
who has suffered extraordinary
damage by fire, inundatns,
storms, mortality of cattle,
or other casualty receives assistance
in money, labour & the
articles or animals he has lost. 348

In N. England readg & writing
universal. 362

Hassenclever's final prosperity. 147


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Adam's Lrs on Silesia.

The Silesian broad cloth
is as firm as the English &
50 pr ct cheaper. 18.

At Frankfurt dinners a
dollars – at Grunberg 1/3d. 26

The Silesian peasant works
10 days ina wk for his ld
& has only 2 days out of the
7 to procure subsistence for
himself. 29

In 1771 it was commons for
a Catholic to exhibit a complt
before a Lutheran Judge
agt another Catholic for calg
him a Lutheran, & requires
satisfactn for this what he
considered as the blackest
slander. 33.

The linen 50 pr ct cheaper
than the Irish – but cannot
give credit. 62.

Bohemian wk 50 pr ct
cheaper & much superior
to the Silesian. 79.

But Sugar costs dble the
price of West Indian. 126.

Every contrivance that
we have seen in the province
for the abridgmt of labour
has been of English invention. p.138.

A water communicatn into
a coal mine found very useful,
is of English invention,
& was recently adopted with
some reluctance. 161.

None of the linen merchants
find the trade with America
answer – the Americans
never pay. 163

Glass dble the price in
places nearly contiguous. 194

Before the 7 yrs war there
was but one gazette – now there
are 17 newspapers & magazines
appearing daily weekly mthly
or 1/4terly. 370.

The church of St. Elizabeth
at Breslau contains a
copy of Froissarts Chronicle,
in 4 large folio vols, written
upon parchmt & adorned
with a great number of
colored drawings, executed


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Adam's Lrs on Silesia.

in the best manner of
the age when it was written.
Its date is 1648
& it contains abt 1/3 more
matter than the printed
edit of Froissart, whose
editor thought it expedt to
omit every thing which
he thought wd not redound
to the natn honor of the
nation. I asked Mr Schubal,
the present librarian, why
he did not publish an
edition of the bk from
this genuine MS? He sd
that such things cd be
undertaken at this time
only in Engd, & that the
wd in Germany wd not
pay the expence of the
publication. 224.

Broughton's Voyage

After burning fires in
the fore cock pit we got
rid of the foul air by the
extractor. Broughtons
Voyage of Discovery 83

At the island of Insu
the women have the
back of their hands &
foreheads tattooed, as well
as round the mouth. 26 205

Off the Island of Mowee
the ground is so clear
that it may be seen in
twenty fathoms. ib. 37


Identifier: | JB/109/044/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.

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1804-08-31

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109

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044

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References to Books

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001

Titles

Barrow's Travels in China / Adams Lrs on Silesia / Broughtons Voyage

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Collectanea

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1

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recto

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Penner

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CW 1799

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C. Abbit Lees

Corrections

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1799

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35699

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