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Illustrations of Men and Things in China.
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salaams to the Chinese commissioner, we departed for the Wellesley; greatly, I believe, to the relief and satisfaction of the mandarins."
One more extract is all that we have space for at present. It, together with a sketch that accompanys the book, affords a good view of the termination of the Great Wall-and probably more ac- curate than any hitherto published.
“Our line lay along the shore of Tartary, where the Chinese Wall meets the sea, not at the point generally supposed, but at a large town, apparently a place a great trade. This great work is seen scaling the precipices aud topping the craggy hills of the country, which have along this coast a most desolate appearance. Some of the party who went in-shore in the steamer to within two miles' dis- tance, made the discovery that the opinion hitherto received from lord Macartney's works, that the wall comes down abruptly into the sea, was erroneous, as it traverses a low flat for some miles from the foot of the mountains before entering the town, which stands upon the water's edge. Here, although only in the month of September, the air became cold and cutting, and the change of temperature was felt severely by the officers and men who had been for the last four years wanderers in the Indian seas. But the different climates of this immense empire are not more varied than the interests, lan- guage, and dress of the provinces; and although an honorable mem- ber of the House of Commons has represented them as joined by a bond of unity, he would in reality be surprised to find the slight con- nection or similarity that exists between them in any one of these points." Page 117,
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ART. IV.
Illustrations of men and things in China: picture of the battle in the rear of Canton, and drawing of a steamer and ship of war.
SINCE the late attack on Canton, some Chinese have been trying to turn a penny by selling pictures of the steamers and ships of war, and also of the Ta pei kwei tsze too, or 'Sketch of the great rout of the devils,' both of them explained by annexed descriptions in verse. The picture of the rout does not vary more from true proportion as a work of art, than the design does from the truth as a matter of his-