THE INLAND SEA OF JAPAN. 



BY ANDREW WILSON. 



[MAGA. NOVEMBER 1861.] 



IT was not unpleasant to be at Ta Lien "Wan, or 

 " Great Girdle Bay," in Manchuria, when the 

 British expedition against China was collected there, 

 in the summer of last year, previous to its advance 

 on the Taku forts. It was pleasant to be there, 

 because, in anticipation, we could always put down 

 any travelled bore with the crushing phrase, "When 

 I was in Manchuria." Then the clear brilliant sky 

 and life-giving air of the north were themselves a 

 pure enjoyment after the steam-bath of Hong-Kong, 

 which place I had described to myself a few weeks 

 before, when in an atrabilarious mood, as 



A mount of desolation 



Upraised in steaming air, 

 With views of rotten granite rocks, 



Salt water, and despair. 



It was something to see that magnificent bay 



