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COAST LINE OF MANCHUEIA. 
This tract of newly-acquired Kussian territory 
is bounded by the river Usuri, a tributary of the 
Amur, and is about one hundred and fifty miles in 
width. But for the purchase of this territory by 
Eussia, the few Manchu Tartars would still have 
hunted the deer in the grassy solitudes, and the 
poor Chinese fishermen would still have gathered 
the sea-weed on the desolate shores. 
Being unacquainted with the fact that this pur- 
chase had been recently made, we were about to 
commence the survey of this extensive coast-line, 
‘ Avhen we became aware of it, while at Olga Bay. 
So we did not “ measure the land,” as the Tartars 
say. We found very few traces of Eussian in- 
fluence and, indeed, although we examined the en- 
tire length of coast from Victoria Harboim in the 
south, to Vladimir Bay in the north, we scarcely 
ever met a human being, this portion of the vast 
region of Manchuria being very scantily populated. 
This immense territory, extending beyond China 
towards the north and east, has a climate equal 
to any in Europe, though in winter the cold is 
