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CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
Opinion of the State of Matters — Get back in Safety to the Shore 
— Novel Mode of crossing the wet Sands — The Bay of Chin- 
chew Page 31 
CHAPTEK IV. 
Land at Chusan — Description of the Island — Town of Tinghae — 
Agriculture — Staple Productions — Hemp Plants — Palm of 
which Popes are made — Trefoil cultivated for Manure — .Oil 
Plant — Flora — Hills covered with Azaleas, &c. — The Tallow 
Tree — Green Tea Shrub — Bamboos and other Trees — Fruits 
— Yang Mai and Kum-Quat — Inhabitants and Shops in Tinghae 
— English Names on Shop Doors — A new Language — Mode of 
classing Foreigners — Diseases of the Eye common — Salt-making 
— Method of preparing the Vegetable Tallow — Mode of hatching 
Eggs by artificial Heat 42 
CHAPTER V. 
First Visit to Ning-po — The Bridge of Boats — City and Pagoda 
— Medical Missionary — Temperature — Chinese Mode of keeping 
themselves warm — Charcoal Stoves — My Lodgings — Chinese 
Gamblers — Description of Shops — Silks and Embroidery — Jade 
Stone — Cotton Printing — Rope-making — Curiosity Shops and 
Contents — " Furniture Street " and Furniture — Banking Esta- 
blishment — No prospect of Foreign Trade — Temples, and Devo- 
tion of some of the People — Dwarfed Trees — Mode of dwarfing 
explained — Mandarins' Gardens visited and described — View 
from northern Hills — Agriculture — Native Flora of these Hills 
— Graves of the Dead — CofSns exposed 61 
CHAPTER VL 
Remarks on the Chinese Language — Ice-houses near Ning-po 
described — Their Simplicity and Utility — Novel Modes of 
Fishing — Fishing Cormorants met with — Their Actions de- 
scribed — Two Pair purchased — Account of their Food and 
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