Identifier: chinainseriesofv3to4allo (find matches)
Title: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisher
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Publisher: London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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h less twisted,serves for the weft, but is of an inferior quality to organzine; floss, which is not twistedat all, consists of the short, broken, and rejected parts; this is collected, carded, andspun like cotton. These three species, formed from the fleuret by twisting or throwing,are now called hand silk; they must all be submitted to the process of boiling, in orderto discharge the gum from them, otherwise they would be harsh to the touch, and unfitto receive the dye. The original native colour of the yarn varies but lit lie in differentcountries. In Anglo-India we find silk yellow, french-white, and fawn colour; in Chinait is generally yellow, and in Sicily and Persia the same colour prevails; while the onlynaturally white produce we yet know of, comes from Palestine. The silk-growers ofKazem-bazar whiten their yarns with a ley made from the ashes of the arbor-fici-Adami: but the species being rare, the larger portion of their exports retains its nativebright and beautiful yellow.
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1 1 I1 ^ SOWING RICE, AT SOO-CHOW-FOO. 27 SOWING RICE, AT SO 0 - CH 0 AV-FOO. PROVINCE OF KIANG-SI. Then, wake, that you may live. Here, take the best prescription I can give ; Your bloodless veins, your appetite shall fail, Unless you raise them by a powerful meal,— Come, take this rice. Horace. It is to the productiveness of the oryza saliva, a simple grass, on which nature hasconferred the peculiar property of growing in marshy or inundated grounds, that thevast regions of the East owe the density of their population, and their early submissionto social obligations. Immense districts in China and Hindoo would, unquestionably,have still lain desolate and untenanted, were it not for the ability to alter and to cultivatethe surface of the globe, which a knowledge of the rice-plant conveys. To what simplecauses, therefore, does deliberate analysis sometimes lead, in our efforts to trace themost remarkable effects to their proper sources; for, the destiny of nations, fromthe earliest

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