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OCTOBER, 1848,-XXXI Days.
Chinese XXVIIIth Year, 1Xth and Xth Moons.
Northerly winds prevail throughout this month, occasionally veering to north- east or nothwest; but the temperature of the atmosphere is neither so cold nor so dry as in the following months; neither does the northerly wind blow so constantly-southerly and easterly winds intervening every now and then. The winter usually sets in with three or four days of light drizzling rain.
Days of Days of
month.
moon.
Chronicle of events in China, &c.
4 Tinghái retaken, 1841.
17
Rev. J. A. Gonçalves died, 1841.
Alexander H. Everett, U. S. A. commissioner
arrived and landed at Macao, 1847.
Supplementary Treaty signed at the Bogue, 1843.
Chinhái taken, 1841.
Lord Napier died at Macao, 1835, and Mr. Davis
succeeded as Chief Superintendent.
Halley's comet observed in Canton, 1835. Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841.
Yukien, imperial commissioner in Chekiáng, com-
mitted suicide, 1841.
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Nemesis and Phlegethon go up to Yüyau, 1841.
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In Canton 1200 houses and 3 factories burnt, 1843.
TENTH MOON. Terranova executed by the Chinese, [1812.
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