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*>94* At five o’clock P. M. we anchored , fafe,. after a long arid curious
jjtemhictv voyage, at-. Spitbead; and fpon felt the iiurxpreffible iktisfa&ion. of
pace more treading the t^ra iirma o f our native counte. / v
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V 'SUPPEEM®SITARJY C H A P T E R #
B r ie f ac countJrf th è fa f fa g ^ fr è n f'H o a f^ p f:ew \ to C m fan, by C a p -
M&ktttiq/h, Variousfujfoms. o jf tjoe Qhjgf&fc^ & c . M iff
O f this^dhptt'^ecQtnat-of the pafiageibf Hoang-tchew to Chufkrc;-
W^apta in, AÉiGkratóJh, and -tèc^gentlemen who feparatecfcfrom the*
CmbaiTy.a'jk thesformer'-pkee,. to-join the^fbipsvatith^lattef^I foeak on.
the authority-.', of dtk€B^.piand,t,therefobe,,Tgivej-it-ca'(pkcèKta^n!0(!!he-
ï si rnatter-f. i&faich IjcoaldvSfe mtrbdu|A elfewhefev' without
/ breaking" the' chain .of ^ration,.- which'the nature', of ;tKe work
appeaik‘ltoj$£(^®t^r«|
’* Viwi^*Ruh took*(th ^ a ^ ta c nm e ^ e r|h e EiiteA| ^jftufan, d i f fered
\fery 'little, .as-I was irdpfp^vdhïéxtèrior appearancedrom tn&fe
thatj havtë beg® ab^aejj* described. A^Eiccefiion o f mountains
roTlri?, - and^ctditixated plains, rfoïaped'ithe^ natural fepnery of its)banks,j
while Ithe'ïjpagQik.'iaiKl-.'the pgla.ee,t$ej -railage {Md' thé. cïtryy Wbre;
|g j || artificial -oBJèd^'mat" engined d r ennobled the. pToj^ebt which,
thef-flreani offered to, the voyagera,on i^h
BqVthis, acvfer met-with interruptiphs.that?we.ftever-experienced.-im
-tKofe on^wmeh we paffed ; 'al®- its téourié twits bci^ipuglly bioketfe^
bycatara<ftsi^f a deep -kil- kpdlfotpiidablei .gp’gga^.nce. ^SuitBf^roujh-
ftance^ would neceffgrdy inipede^e/na-vigation o f the risersswijere, they
-jfryfent- thentfelvès-, i f ;the, ugpafallded mdüihy,. ppr%verance,. and k
may farely •' add, . die iagghuity^fi the phihefe,4iha^t{n9t/fumiounte^
this bbdliele]) aftd. inkirhanrier, which-i-t requires fort?.confidence ini
thofe who informed me;ofi it{s to relate..
Tloi.