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Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the United States
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: Washington : A. O. P. Nicholson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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along a sandy beach some three miles distant from Sotowra,and is comparatively a flourishing settlement. Several quarries of trachyte, or greenstone, areworked in the neighborhood, and large quantities of charcoal are prepared on the forest-crownedhills in the rear. Turning westwardly and ascending the hill beyond Shira-hama, the highest summit within fivemiles of Simoda is reached, from which the whole southern area and breadth of the peninsulaof Idzu can be seen at one glance. Barren peaks rise to the view out of thickly wooded hills,whoso sides open into valleys, down which the wild vegetation throngs until checked by the 412 KXPEDITION rO JAPAN. culture of tlie fields that siurouml the busy hamlets at the bottom. Where the beholder standson the summit of the hill there is a small wooden shrine, almost hidden in a grove of pines.The numerous pictures, flowers, rags, copper cash, and decapitated queues found within, attestthe popularity of the Zhi-zo-bozats, the deity of tlie place.
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Valley above Simoiia. Descending the hill by its northwestern slope, the largest valley of the country round isentered. The river Inodzu-gama, which flows into the harbor of Simoda, passes through this,irrigating the cultivated banks and sustaining the commerce of the various villages and townsin the interior. TIio liamlet of Hongo, containing about one hundred and fifty liouses, issituated on the river, which has been dammed at that spot, and turns five undershot mills forcleaning rice. This operation is performed by a very simple machine, which consists of aprojecting piece of wood or stone attached at riglit angles to the end of a long lever, Avhichplays upon a horizontal axis, and is moved up and down, like a pestle working in a mortar. This rude machinery is occasionally worked by water^ as at Hongo, but more frequently by aman, who steps alternately off and on, the long end of the beam. The river at Hongo isnavigable for flat bottomed boats, wliicb frequent tlie i)lace for clia

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