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there is or is not an open sea beyond Smith Sound. As geographers we 
cannot too warmly thank them for the spirit they have displayed in this Arctic 
subject. 
Before adjourning the meeting the President announced that, by the desire 
of the Council, he would again apply for the permission of the Senate of 
the University of London and of the Council of the Royal Society to hole 
the meetings during the next session at Burlington House. 
ADDITIONAL NOTICES. 
1. Extract from Notes upon the Passage up the Peiho with Lord Macartney 
in 1793. By Captain Parish, r.a. With a Chart of the course 
of the river, printed on a reduced scale in Sir George Staunton’s 
Account of the Embassy, and lately republished by the Hydro- 
graphical Department. 
Communicated by Sir Woodbine Parish, k.c.h., f.r.g.s. 
About the end of the month of July, 1793, IP. M. S. Lion and the Hindostan, 
a large East Indiaman, attended by three small brigs, arrived with Lord 
Macartney and the British embassy off the Peiho River, in the Gulf of Pe-che- 
li. The depth of water not being thought sufficient to justify a nearer 
approach of the large ships with safety, they were anchored at a distance of 
15 or 20 miles from the land, one of the brigs being sent in to communicate 
with the Chinese authorities, who were no sooner apprised of their arrival 
than they sent off supplies of all things needful for them, and junks without 
number to facilitate their landing and farther progress. It took some days 
to transfer all the heavy baggage and valuable presents for the Emperor, 
when, all being ready, the ambassador himself, with the gentlemen of his 
suite, went on board the brigs, and, accompanied by a swarm of Chinese 
junks, with a fair wind and tide, accomplished the entrance of the river with- 
out difficulty ; and, after crossing a bar which lies off its mouth with only 
7 or 8 feet water over it, ran up it some little distance, and were landed at a 
little town called Ta-coo, where the viceroy of the province was waiting to 
receive them with all honours A At Ta-coo they went on board some passage- 
vessels prepared by the Chinese for their reception, described as being very 
conveniently fitted up for their accommodation — very high out of the water, 
and, although 70 or 80 feet long, of such light construction as not to draw 
more than 18 inches when all were on board. In these vessels it took them 
two long days to reach the city of Tiensing, a distance, according to Captain 
Parish’s calculation by the course of the river, of about 85 miles from its 
mouth, although in a direct line not more than half as much. 
Tiensing is situated at the confluence of the Peiho and Euho, or Yung- 
leang-ho (the grain- bearing river), so named from its being the channel by 
which the greater part of the supplies for the consumption of the capital are 
brought from the southern provinces through the Grand Canal, and the many 
See Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. iii. p. 304 . — Ed. 
