. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . hey fonietimes pro-cure a draught of the Ample unfermenied juice calledtodiiy. Cochin is the principal place from whence theDutch import their pepper into Europe. Cochin-Chi NA, a kingdom of Afia, bounded onthe north by Tonquin; on the call, by the fea ofChuia ; onthefoutb, by the Indian ocean ; and on theweft, by Cambodia, and a ridge of monntains inhabitedby a favage people called Ken
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . hey fonietimes pro-cure a draught of the Ample unfermenied juice calledtodiiy. Cochin is the principal place from whence theDutch import their pepper into Europe. Cochin-Chi NA, a kingdom of Afia, bounded onthe north by Tonquin; on the call, by the fea ofChuia ; onthefoutb, by the Indian ocean ; and on theweft, by Cambodia, and a ridge of monntains inhabitedby a favage people called Keniois, \\\w live indepen-dent of any government. Little of the hiflory of thiskingdom is known. M. le Poivre, a French travellerinforms us, that abont half a century before the Frenchfirfl arrived in thefe diftant regions, a prince of Ton-quin, as he fled from his fovertign, by whom he waspurfucd as a rebel, had with his foldicrs and adherentscroifed ihe river which fcrves as a barrier betweenTonquin and Cochin China. The fugitives, Who werewarlke and civilized men, foon expelled the fcatter-ed inhabitants, who wandered about without any fo- ciciy COCOS NUCIFEJIA^l/u Vccfi/i,^ 4ia3//<er. Plate CXLH. ,. Thackara iL }all/iitc<r, SculbT C 0 c u ] c o c SSichin- ciciy or form of goveriinient, ami foundtd a new king-Chini, dom, which loon gri w rich and populous. During^ ^ the rcigas of th( lix kin^s, no iiaiion could be Iiap-picr than ihi Cochin-Chinclc. Thtir monarchs go-verned thciii as a f4tlitr docs his family, clUblilhingno ku3 but t!tole of tutiire, to which they themfclvcswere the firfi to piv obedience They hoiiourcd andcncoaraged agricidinre, as the n;oftufcful employmentof mankind : and required from their fiibjti^ls only afmall annuil free-gift to defray the expence of theirdefenfivc waragaind the Tonquincfc, who were theirenemies. This impofition was regulated, by way ofpoll-tax, wi;h the grcatcd equi-y. Every man, ableto till the ground, paid inio the princa
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