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Title: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisher
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Publisher: London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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nd. Lord Macartney visited this Chinese archipelago, and met with a continuance ofthat courtesy, which his prudence and address elsewhere obtained for him amongst thesevery prejudiced people ; but, their apprehension of his discovering how accessible Nan-king was to a British fleet, induced them to misrepresent the true character of theTa-hea estuary. That embassy, therefore, added nothing to our knowledge of this valuableinlet, decidedly the most advantageously situated for commerce with foreigners, amongstall the populous places of the empire. An expedition undertaken in the ship Amherst, augmented our hydrographicinformation of the Chinese coast, and searched the recesses of the Ning-po harbour ;*but the achievements of the late war, in which China succumbed so humbly to Britishpower, have opened the harbour and the river, and the trade of this beautifully-seatedcity, not to Britain only, but to the civilized world. • Vide City of Ning-po, from the river, vol. ii.. p. 67, et seq.
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J^ ,1 ^ S\ ^ ^ J ^ J ^ ^1 iJ THE TAI-WANG-KOW. THE TAI-WANG-KOW, OR YELLOW PAGODA FORT. CAXTOX RIVER. Haste, bring tlieni forth ! and raze From turret to foundation-stone, the keepWhence rose no song of praise From weary captives wont to doubt and weep. The Christian Captive. In many placesthe banks of the Canton or Pearl river are eminently picturesque, andthe separation of its waters into numerous channels, while it perplexes the foreignnavigator, is a source of endless gratification and real advantage to those acquaintedwith the different branches, and who dwell along their refreshing borders. IMile aftermile of the river littorale below Canton is clothed with the densest and most brilliantfoliage, save where population equally compact has hewn out a site for a settlement.There villages peep forth from the thiclv dark shelter of an ancient grove, which atone time is in immediate contact with the grotesque dwellings, at another removed onlyby the area of an orchard, a garden, or a p

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