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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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ell that of associationfrom long residence as from its intrinsic beauties. Webster island is a charming spot, shadedwith the thickest groves of green growth, and varied with hill and dale, wild mountain top and 400 EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. cultivated slope. Between it and its neigcliloring isle, called by the surveyors Perry, after theCommodore, is a little bay, upon the inland shores of which there is a considerable quarry ofstone that the Japanese have extensively worked. Large blocks were lying about, and therocky precipices of the shore were hewn into good walls of a smooth surface, from wliich themasses of stone had been cut with a regularity that showed much skill. There were otherevidences about of the busy industry of the Japanese; there were various boat building yards,■with junks dragged ashore for repairs, with workmen actively at work over their hulls, andvarious docks and landing places constructed of stone, and showing the careful industry and nolittle skill of the people.
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Mia or fiojul Siiic (.■ii..;)Ll, ut Vuku-haina. At four oclock in tlie morning of the 18th of April the Commodore finally got under wayfor Simoda, in the Powhatan, accompanied by the Mississippi, and anchored in that port at ten„;„„*„„ .,„„. *!,..,.„ ;.. .1,,. „ft r n,. i..„ p.,,. Mis.sissippi dn>piu<d her ancb.ir off minutes past three in the aftcniiMHi of tlic same day A R R I V A I, AT S I M 0 n A. 401 the mouth of the harbor, but soon after took her position within, in the neighborhood of thePowhatan. The Vaudalia, Southampton, Supply, and Lexington, were found anchored there.The Commodore had i)urposely dispatched the several ships in succession, in order to enablethose which arrived tirst, time for examining the harbor and selecting convenient anchoringplaces for their consorts which were to follow. This turned out to be a well-timed precaution,as the Southampton, in warping into the inner harbor, came upon a rock lying in the middleof the channel, wi

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