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amounted to 342,000 dollars balance in favour of the 

 voyage, 44,000 dollars. It is added that the result 

 would have been better, but for the high cost and poor 

 assortment of the cargoes, and the extravagant rate of 

 freight. Dr. Ainlie, who accompanied this expedition, 

 returned with the impression that ' the Japanese were 

 entirely free from any prejudices that would stand in the 

 way of an unrestricted intercourse with Europeans. Even 

 their religious prejudices appeared, to him, moderate and 

 inoffensive. Commerce with Japan, both in exports and 

 imports, was in his opinion, extensible to a long list of 

 articles not yet exchanged, and capable of great increase. 

 We will not attempt to decide how far his opinions on 

 the accessibleness of this empire may have been modified 

 by the views and wishes of his patron and friend. The 

 following year a second effort was made by Governor 

 Raffles, in a single vessel, to place British representation 

 at Nangasaki ; but the pertinacity of the Dutch president 

 triumphed in this, as in the former instance, and he kept 

 his footing as the impersonation of the old regime, until 

 Java and its dependencies fell again into Dutch hands, 

 after the peace of 1815." 



The position of the western islet off the anchorage at 

 Nangasaki, upon which our Observations were made, 

 was determined to be in Latitude 32 43' 32" N., Lon- 

 gitude 129 43' 54" E., Variation 2 35' 39" W., and 

 Dip 45 6' 2". The coasts of Japan have not at any 

 period been surveyed by competent persons, and the out- 

 lines of the main islands, which we possess, and upon 

 the authority, I believe, of the Jesuits, can only be 

 reckoned as Maps, instead of Charts ; consequently, the 



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