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TEA DISTRICTS OF CHINA. 



Chap. I; 



the finest houses here, has frequent applications from 

 respectable Chinese who are anxious to see the inside 

 of an English dwelling. These applications are 

 always complied with in the kindest manner, and the 

 visitors depart highly delighted with the view. It is 

 to be hoped that these peeps at our comforts and 

 refinements may have a tendency to raise the " bar- 

 barian race " a step or two higher in the eyes of the 

 " enlightened " Chinese. 



A pretty English church forms one of the orna- 

 ments of the new town, and a small cemetery has 

 been purchased from the Chinese ; it is walled round, 

 and has a little chapel in the centre. In the course 

 of time we may perhaps take a lesson from the Chi- 

 nese, and render this place a more pleasing object 

 than it is at present. Were it properly laid out with 

 good walks, and planted with weeping willows, 

 cypresses, pines, and other trees of an ornamental 

 and appropriate kind, it would tend to raise us in 

 the eyes of a people who of all nations are most par- 

 ticular in their attention to the graves of the dead. 



The gardens of the foreign residents in Shanghae 

 are not unworthy of notice ; they far excel those of 

 the Chinese, both in the number of trees and shrubs 

 which they contain, and also in the neat and tasteful 

 manner in which they are laid out and arranged. 



The late Mr. Hetherington* was the first to 



* Mr. Hetherington fell a victim to a fever of a very fatal kind 

 which prevailed in the autumn of 1848. He was a true specimen of 

 the old English gentleman, and was deeply regretted by all who had 

 the pleasure of knowing him. 



