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in addition to those they already possess from which it may be inferred that they do not consider that the value of this accessibility is likely to be at all affected by the building operations at present in progress at that city.
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The Opium which forms so largely among the exports from this place is mostly transhipped from large vessels that bring it from India into smaller ones where adapted for the coasting trade, and is sent up to different points along the East Coast of China when receiving ships are stationed for the purpose of relieving it in small quantities. They return either with Specie for remittance to India or sometimes with part of the cargo they have brought.