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* Three Books of Heraldry, containing the Coats of Arms of the Emperor of Japan, as alſo of the Princes and Noblemen of the Empire, together with the Pikes, and other Badges and Enſigns of Authority, which are uſually carried before them. I have engraved ſeveral of theſe in the Frontiſpiece, and in Tab. XXX.

* A Dictionary, containing five thouſand Sſin, Common, Taf, and Sſo Characters: ſome ſpecimens of which are to be ſeen in Tab. XLV, in the two laſt Columns to the left.

* Several Copy-books, ſhewing the various figures of their Characters, ſimple and compound.

* A map of the whole world, according to the Japaneſe. It is two Feet broad, and four Feet three Inches long.

* Several Maps of the Empire of Japan, of two Feet, three Inches in breadth, and ſix Feet and a half in length.

* A Map of the Empire of China, divided into its ſeveral Provinces of four Feet in length and as many in breadth.

* A ground-plot of Jedo, the Capital City and Reſidence of the ſecular Emperor, of four Feet and a half in length, and as many in breadth, contracted in Tab. XXX of this Hiſtory.

* A ground-plot of Miaco, the Reſidence of the Eccleſiaſtical Hereditary Monarch, five Feet and a half long, and four Feet broad, contracted in Tab. XXVII of this Hiſtory.

* A Map of the Town of Nagaſaki, and the neighbouring Country, four Feet eleven Inches long, and two Feet two Inches broad, contracted in Tab. XIX.

* A Ground-plot of the Town of Oſacca, of three Feet in length, and two Feet eight Inches in breadth.

* A particular Map of the Road from Nagaſaki to Oſacca, with the repreſentations of the Rivers, Bridges, Towns, Caſtles, Temples, &c. in a Roll, twenty Feet long, and eleven Inches broad.

* Another Map of the Road from Oſacca to Jedo after the ſame manner, and of the ſame length and breadth.

* Views of the moſt celebrated Temples, Caſtles, and other Buildings of the Japaneſe, to the number of fifty, done by the Natives, in water colours, all of the ſame ſize and make with thoſe engraved in Tab. XVII, XVIII, XXXV, and XXXVI, which I have copied out of this very collection.

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