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210 _ A, 8. Bickmore on the recent 
It is likewise observable, that the mountain Ki-she-shan, 
which formerly was united to the territory of Yungping fu, is 
now jive hundred li (about one hundred and sixty English miles) 
distant in the sea from this city (and now, 1867, it probably 
forms one of the islands near the promontory north of the 
Miautau islands). So that the sea gaining on the land by de- 
grees has at last overflowed all this tract of ground. It is in- 
that happens during the life of one man being not at all per- 
ceptible.” 
the coal mines near the capital of the empire. From Tientsin 
I proceeded directly to Peking, and thence to the mountains 
on the north, and along the flanks of this range to the Nankau 
pass, and thence to the coal mines, a day’s journey southward. 
And in entire accordance with Father du Halde’s statements 
a long sand-pit extending out from the mainland to a hig! 
hes and forming the western side of the harbor. On this 
spit are seen two old sea beaches, as perfect as the present one. 
