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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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that he is believed to conceal himself at certain periods in the littlecreeks, and under the shelving banks of the river. Although Mother-Careys chickenspresent a more serious apprehension of danger to the mariner than the hiding dragon,the Chinese sailor lives in constant fear of being overturned by the malice of the latter,who darts out suddenly from his ambush upon the unsuspecting victim. The incon-sistency of superstition is strongly marked in this national festival; for, the very deityto whom they ascribe the possession of authority at all other times, in the month of Junethey undertake to put down, or frighten away. Who could imagine any system ofidolatry so infatuated as to prompt the inscription of The flying dragon is in heaven,in letters of gold on the chief national emblem of a people, and the next moment toadvise the pursuit of the same imaginary being amongst the laden boats that loiterin the Canton river ? * Riccius, lib. i. cap. x. ^^^H ^^^^^R ^^^^^^^^^^^H^^^^^^S i: ,1
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^ ^ \^ I f J^ .1\^^ ^11 CITY OF AMOY. CITY OF AMOY FROM THE TOMBS. A city pleases me : I have intenseDelight in human effort, and my soulBecomes as twere a portion of the whole,In all its beauty and magnificence. Maky Howitt. Captain Stoddarts accurate view of the site and scenery of this celebrated entrepot,is a panorama of exquisite loveliness. Employing the ancient burial-ground as anobservatory, the eye ranges over the low-lying city with its embattled walls; the wide-spread suburbs, with their countless cottages; beyond these, again, to the land-lockedcove, dotted with busy merchant-men, there riding securely from every breath of wind.Above the waters of the inner bay, which closely resembles an inland lake, rises anoble chain of mountains, dentated in outline, and granitic in structure. Ko-long-soo,interposed between the outward ocean and this picturesque basin, acts as a natural andmost efficient breakwater, imparting such entire and constant placidity to its surface,that vesse

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