Beauty ſoon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the ſenſe.

And let the wilful or ignorant mistakers know, that they wound innocency.

In Pʻu-tung, the district on the east bank of the river, are the shipyards, dry docks, foundries, engineering establishments, machine shops, etc., and the river bank is lined with wharves and great warehouses and stores.

Next, unspool twenty cubits of the thin silver wire thread and cut this length in half. If you have less than twenty cubits, unspool all you have, and cut it in two equal parts.