. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. all means that offered to elude the restrictive laws;and he found, like Thunberg and Titsingh, a certainnumber of the natives very anxious to obtain informa-tion, and by no means unwilling secretly to impart it. In 1826, he accompanied Van Sturlen, the director, onthe quadrennial journey to Yedo, taking with him ayoung native physician, a native artist, and severalservants to assist his researches into natural , as Fisscher had done, nearly or quite inKampfers old route, he saw, in the passage acrossKiushiu, the
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. all means that offered to elude the restrictive laws;and he found, like Thunberg and Titsingh, a certainnumber of the natives very anxious to obtain informa-tion, and by no means unwilling secretly to impart it. In 1826, he accompanied Van Sturlen, the director, onthe quadrennial journey to Yedo, taking with him ayoung native physician, a native artist, and severalservants to assist his researches into natural , as Fisscher had done, nearly or quite inKampfers old route, he saw, in the passage acrossKiushiu, the same old camphor-tree, as flourishing, ap-parently, as it had been a hundred and thirty-five yearsbefore, but with a hollow in its trunk large enough tohold fifteen men. He visited the same hot springs, anddescended some sixty feet into the coal mine, near Ko-kura, mentioned by Kampfer. He saw only one thinseam of coal, but was told of thicker ones below, — anaccount which the coal drawn up seemed to confirm. At Yedo he met with many Japanese physicians, J o. A JAPANESE CLOCK 251 astronomers, and others, of whose acquisitions he speakswith much respect. Besides the other means, already pointed out, of meas-uring time, he saw in use there Chinese clepsydras, orwater-clocks; but the method most relied upon forscientific purposes was a clock of which the idea wasderived from one introduced into China by the JesuitRicci, and brought thence to Japan. This clock isworked by two balances, one to act by day and theother by night. The arm of each balance is notched,to accord with the variations in the length of the the summer solstice the weights are hung respec-tively upon the outermost notch of the day-balance, andupon the innermost notch of the night-balance. Atintervals of six days, four hours and twelve minutes,both weights are moved; that of the day-balance a notchinward, that of the night-balance a notch outward,until at the winter solstice their original positions are
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