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Identifier: narrativeofexped05perr (find matches)
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.)
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ide is a shoal called the NorthSand, extending some six leagues westward from the main land, and on thesouth side is a parallel shoal, called the South Sand, projecting nearly as farfrom the shore on that side. The outer extremities of these shoals are be-yond sight of the main land. The channel between the two shoals maybe estimated at about two miles in width, and there are no light-houses,boats, beacons, or buoys to indicate to strangers the entrance. A small isletcalled Gutzlaff Island is the only indication, for the navigator to direct hiscourse. The rise and fall in the Yang-tse Keang averages about ten feet, andvessels are obliged to find their way hap-hazard into the channel, or perchancerun upon one of the sister sands. Numbers of vessels resorting to Shanghaiare lost, and still nothing has been done to remedy the evil. The Commo-dore was convinced, on visiting this river with the Mississippi, that untilproper landmarks and beacons are established to indicate the entrance, it
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CAMOENS CAVE, MAOAO.

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