5. That the _Physicians_ of _China_ do cure Sicknesses with much ease, and in a short time: That they have very ancient Books of the nature and vertues of Herbs, Trees and Stones: That their Modern Physicians (as well as their Ancient ones did) write of the Prognosticks, Causes, Effects, &c. of Diseases. That their Remedies consist for the most part of _Simples_ and _Decoctions_, _Cauteries_, _Frictions_; without the use of _Bloud letting:_ That they have such an excellent skill and method in feeling the _Pulse_, that by the means thereof they discover even the most latent causes of Diseases; taking a good half hour, when they visit a Patient, in feeling and examining his Pulse: That they prescribe much the use of _The_; and the drinking alwayes warme, whatever they drink: To the custome of both which it's imputed, that the inhabitants of _China_ do spit very little, nor are subject to the Stone or Gout: That they prise highly the Root _Ginseng_, as an extraordinary Restorative and Cordiall, recovering frequently with it agonizing persons; one pound of it being paid with 3 pounds of silver. As for their _Chymists_, (of which they have also good store) they go beyond ours, promising not only to make Gold, but to give Immortality. 6. That their _Nobility_ is raised from Learning and Knowledge, without regard to Bloud or Parentage, excepting the Royall Family. 7. That in _CHEKIAN_, a maritime Province, whence is the shortest cut of _China_ to _Japan_, is the best and plentifullest _Silk-trade_ in the world: And that there every year the Mulberries are cutt, and kept down, that they grow not into Trees for the easier gathering of the Leaves, there being a _double_ Silk-harvest in that Country, as there is in severall other parts of the East-indies; (both which there is hope, will shortly be imitated in _Virginia_.)