Statistics for occurrence #1 of “China” in chapter 6, entry fork of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...ary, in the reign of Elizabeth, refers to their use in Venice.
Heylin in his Cosmograph, 1662, says: The use of silver forks, which is by some of our spruce gallants taken up of late, came from China into Italy, and thence into England.
Table-forks have long been in use in Feejee.
At a time when all Northern Europe was destitute of the article, these remarkable savages, the most cruel and ...
| Max. Freq. | Min. Freq. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | China (China) | 3,800 | 602 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| China (Alabama, United States) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| China (Indiana, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| China (Japan) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| China (Louisiana, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| China (Maine, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| China (Missouri, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| China (New York, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| China (Nuevo Leon, Mexico) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| China (Texas, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.