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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rved at New Year. It consists in the study of theteachings of Confucius and Lao-tse. The majority of the peopleare Buddhists. Education is almost universal, there being ftewadults unable to read and write. The Chinese have had news-papers at least ten centuries. Value of imports, 1883, $103,071,415; exports, $98,349,895. Th©chief imports were: opium, valued at $35,510,260; and cottongoods, valued at $30,88S,465. Chief exports: tea,—value, $45,077,135;and Bilk, chiefly raw, $33,537,990. The coal fields of China are amongthe first in the world; about 3,000,000 tons are mined each year. Themines at Kai-ping, in 1883, produced 600 tons per day. In June, 1876, a railway of twenty miles, between Shanghai andWoosung, was opened for traffic; but the following year it was pur-chased by the Chinese authorities, and closed. There are 20,000Imperial roads in the empire. In 1884 there were 3,089 miles of tele-graph line, with 5,489 miles of wire. ATLAS Oi TEE WORLD. 39 MAP OF CHINA* JAPAN* ETC.
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40 ATLAS OF THE WORLD. ANAM. An ^ nam. An empire of Indo-China under t.e protectorate of France. Area, 198,043 square miles. Population, 12,000,000. Drained by manj rivers. In January, temperature 41° throughout the north; in .■outhern part of Cochin China, mean annual temperature is 83°. The elephant, panther and tiger found in the forests of Anam. Inhabitants essentially agricultural. Country rich in metalt.Government is an absolute monarchy. Social equality existsamong citizens. Buddhism and doctrines of Confucius are domi-nant. Hue is the capital; pop., 100,000. BURMA. Burmah. As a result of the late war veith Great Britain, Burma was on Jan.1, 1886, declared a part of the British Empire. The government isnow administered by the Governor General of India, though thecountry is not yet incorporated with the Indian Empire. The lategovernment was a despotism, dependent on the will of the King.The area is 190,500 square miles. Population estimated to be about8,000,000. Capital, Jla

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