TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. 

 Th« Author of the following work appears to liaTA been 

 s man of edncatmu Bnd obicrvation, equal to the g*nera!ify 

 of !>ia own countrj-men. Hi a d is lor led views ond o^cayionul 

 mistalceBj are to be atcribed to his early Imbits and [>arlial 

 informfllion ; conFltli^rinj ilje circumBLnnceB under which he 

 wToie, however, his j-emarke display not a litile of good lenae 

 and good feeling. The eingiiUr reprcgcni-ation given of Eu- 

 ropean hahj'tff and raanneri will perljapa contribute to die 

 amu3«nieni of wesfern readcra, as serving to ehew what ihe 

 fj'iieb*? tfijWis»t of foreign nation?. The "'*'""* *«ap moendpfl 



)t a literary airio*iiy, and ehew^ tit>vr^.*» .^^jpeana 



\he Chinete are in hydrograpliy ; ihou^li they may tomelimee 

 make a elkrewd remtirk on men find manner*. With regard 

 10 the translation, it remaini merely lo be obsen-edj that it 

 has hem drawn up andidst ilip pressure of many more inii]>or- 

 tant duties, and is publislird wiiU the view of bringing the 

 eastern and we3l«rn world into o bttter 'acquaintance with 



Shin^hae, July 3rd, 1849. 



