Excerpt from An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795, Subsequent to That of the Earl of Macartney, Vol. 2: Containing a Description of Several Parts of the Chinese Empire, Unknown to Europeans Printed for R. Phillips, no. 7x, st. Paul's church yard, and sold BY J debrett, piccadilly; lee and hdrst, paternoster-row; and BY all other booksellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.