CHINA:

A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THAT EMPIRE AND ITS INHABITANTS, &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THAT EMPIRE

AND ITS INHABITANTS;

WITH THE

HISTORY OF FOREIGN INTERCOURSE DOWN TO THE
EVENTS WHICH PRODUCED THE
DISSOLUTION OF 1857.

BY SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, BART., K.C.B.,

F.R.S., &c.,

LATE HER MAJESTY'S PLENIPOTENTIARY IN CHINA; AND

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

With Illustrations.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1857.

246. b. 124.

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