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coast slightly indented, but with no appearance of secure harbours. 

 The scenery of Shantung, the peculiar form of the hills, and the 

 natural or artificial tumuli which appeared to crown their summits, 

 or rise from the level plateaus, recalled strongly to mind the penin- 

 sulas of Taman and Kertch, on the shores of the Black Sea. The 

 resemblance led to speculation in my mind as to the connec- 

 tion between two points so far apart upon the globe's surface. 

 Both were in Asia ; both spots were on the southern edge of the 

 great Tartarian region, and in about the same degree of north lati- 

 tude ; over both, at no very remote period, nomadic tribes of the 

 same great family had wandered as conquerors or fugitives, and 

 erected those silent yet expressive tumuli, either as tokens of their 

 sovereignty, or in barbaric honour of departed warrior chiefs. Those 

 in the far West were now in the hands of the warlike Russian, to be 

 hollowed out into Mamelons and Malakoffs for the good of the 

 orthodox faith ; these before us in the East had been seized upon by 

 the Chinese, a far more practical race, who, alas for the poetry of the 

 act ! turned these chambers, fashioned for the post-mortem revels of 

 the mounted Viking of Tartary, into lime and brick-kilns ! if not 

 yet viler pui-poses. 



Ugly shoals and broken water showed on either side of the city 

 of Teng-chow-fu,* and as the Furious rattled along under steam 

 and sail, the extensive battlements of the city struck even me, who 

 was fresh from the great Chinese towns of Canton and Shanghai, as 

 enclosing an area larger than any before seen. Teng-chow-fu 

 stands upon a level, which rises somewhat abruptly from the sea 

 for a hundred feet or so. Within its walls, and at the N.W. angle, 

 is a conical hill, crowned with a temple. Not far in the rear the 

 lofty hills of Shangking are seen, and the ground rises on the 

 eastern and western sides of the city ; indeed, in a military point 

 of view, the walls are dominated by a ridge of hills running out 

 to the east, and from the extreme point of which the Gulf of 

 Pecheli may be said to commence. 



The best information we possess of Teng-chow-fu, and that 

 meagre enough, is to be found in the voluminous narrative of Lord 

 Macartney's embassy to China in 1793; and as it is now one of 

 the new ports open for European commerce, and likely to play an 

 important part as the emporium of Northern China, I shall take 



♦ It is hopeless to profess to be correct about the pronunciation or orthography 

 of names of places in China, so long as those learned in such matters differ in 

 opinion. The Admiralty Chart calls it " Teng-chu-fu ;" I^ord Macartney writes 

 it " Ten-choo-foo ;" Mr. Williams, the American, in his map spells it *' Tang- 

 Chau-fu ;" and so on. 



