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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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fair copies of the charts which hadbeen constructed during the late cruise. The artists and draughtsmenwere constantly engaged in making and completing their sketches and draw-ings, of which more than two hundred were finished. The several appa-ratus of the magnetic telegraph, the Daguerreotype, and the Talbotype werearranged and put in full operation. Macao had always hitherto beeii considered a remarkably salubriousplace, and chosen as the usual summer resort of families from Canton andHong Kong; but the epidemic which prevailed in 1853 proved that it wasnot always to be exempt from those destructive visitations of disease towhich the cities and towns of the east are so much exposed. During thetime that so much sickness prevailed at Macao, Canton was comparativelyexempt. In fact, this latter city is looked upon, and justly so, as a health-ful place when compared with other cities in the neighborhood; and thisseems more remarkable, when it is considered that the inhabitants are con-
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SALUBRITY OF CANTON. 3S\) stantly breathing the miasmatic atmosphere arising from the luxuriant andmarshy fields of rice and other grains which surround Canton. Many partsof the town itself, in fact, are periodically overflowed by the rising of theriver, which makes the circumstance of its comparative healthfulness stillmore extraordinary. While there was so much sickness at Macao, the pub-lic garden of the Factories at Canton was covered with water, which ap-proached to the very doors of the merchants, and this too at a season when,in all inter-tropical latitudes, local fevers are to be expected. And notwith-standing all these exciting causes of disease, the officers and crew of theSupply, at anchor off the city, and within the direct influence of them,remained perfectly healthy, while those on board the other ships sufferedmore or less from the prevailing epidemic. Various speculations have been advanced to account for the singu-lar exemption of the inhabitants of Canton from the ef

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