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Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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and commands the opposite and elevated coast ofAfrica, with the towns of Tangier and Ceuta clothing its heights, served toconfirm the similarity of features with which every one whose travelled ex-perience allowed of comparison was greatly impressed. Hakodadi belongs to the imperial fief of Matsmai, and is the largesttown on the island of Yesso, with the exception of Matsmai, from which itis distant about thirty miles in an easterly direction. An excellent roadnot far from the seacoast connects the two places, and a large trade is car-ried on between them and by both with several small towns on the island ofNippon, on the southern side of the Strait of Sangar, or, as it should beproperly called, T sugar a. The town of Hakodadi is regularly built with streets running at rightangles with each other. They are between thirty and forty feet in width,and are carefully macadamized to allow of the proper draining of water.There are open gutters on each side, which receive the drippings of the
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HAKODADI. 507 houses and the washings of the streets, and also well constructed sewers,through which the surplus water and the refuse are poured into the bay.The side walks, which are frequently paved, are curbed with stone plantedon edge as with us, but as no wheeled carriages are found in the town, themiddle of the street is used indiscriminately in dry weather by the pedes-trian. Hakodadi, like all the Japanese towns, is remarkably clean, thestreets being suitably constructed for draining, and kept, by constantsprinkling and sweeping, in a neat and healthful condition. Woodenpicket fences with gates cross the streets at short intervals; these areopened for the passage of the people during the day, but closed at night.The same municipal regulations obtain in Hakodadi as in all the othertowns of Japan; the inhabitants of the several streets form so manyseparate communities, as it were, responsible for the conduct of each other,each governed by an official called ottona, who is also h

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