There are overland highways centring in this city fom nine of. the eighteen provinces of China. The principal part Of the. material -for making. the porcelain comes from the seven Asiens constituting the prefecture of Lochou.. A very fine quality of white clay comes from Nankangfu on the Poyang Lake, while the colouring for the porcelain comes from the far-off province of Yunnan. There are over one hundred kilns in the pases, employing three hundred thousand men, women, and children. It requires three days to burn a kiln of porce-Jain, and each kiln averages 86 outputs a year. We were anxious to know why it was that porcelain was manufactured st no other place in China, seeing that the: owners of every province it, the Empire. We were told the kilns represented people from nearly that it.was owing to the dryness and lightness of the atmosphere, such as was not to be found elsewhere in the Empire. In former years these kilns were scattered over jerable territory, all, however, in ti section of the country, but were finally transferred to this centre, as it was discovered that they could turn out better wares here than at any other place.
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