Memoir, Geographical, Political, and Commercial, on the Present State, Productive Resources, and Capabilities for Commerce, of Siberia, Manchuria, and the Asiatic Islands of the Northern Pacific Ocean: And on the Importance of Opening Commercial Intercourse with Those Countries, Etc. : Addressed to His Excellency, James K. Polk, President of the United StatesTippin & Streeper, printers, 1848 - 105 sivua |
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AARON H abundance Aleutian Aleutian islands Altaï American Amúr animals Aniva bay Archipelago Asiatic bay of San black tea breadth called canal cape Caubul Central Asia China Chinese Chusan Chusan Archipelago cloth coast commerce Corea cotton districts east longitude eastern embouchure Emperor empire export extends feet fertile fish foxes frontier furs gold green teas gulf of Tartary harbor hills imperial importance inhabitants Irkoutsk Irtysch Japan Japanese Kamtschatka Kiakta Kurile islands lake land language Manchu Manchu Language Manchuria manufactured mart miles mines Mongolia Mongols Moukden mountains natives navigation Nicaragua north latitude northern ocean Pacific Pacific ocean Pekin Petersburg population port possesses principal productive province Realejo river roubles route Russian Russian-American Company Saghalien San Juan sea of Okotsk settlement ship shore Siberia silk situated southern species strait Tarakay Tibet timber tion Tobolsk town trade tribes Ural valley vessels western whale wild Yeso
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Sivu 96 - This is the entrance to the great bay, and is the only water communication from the coast to the interior country. Approaching from the sea the coast presents a bold outline. On the south, the bordering mountains come down in a narrow ridge of broken hills, terminating in a precipitous point, against which the sea breaks heavily. On the northern side, the mountain presents a bold promontory, rising in a few miles to a height of two or three thousand feet. Between these points is the strait — about...
Sivu 96 - On the south, the bordering mountains come down in a narrow ridge of broken hills, terminating in a precipitous point, against which the sea breaks heavily. On the northern side, the mountain presents a bold promontory, rising in a few miles to a height of two or three thousand feet. Between these points is the strait — about one mile broad, in the narrowest part, and five miles long from the sea to the bay. Passing through this gate...
Sivu 96 - ... mile broad, in the narrowest part, and five miles long from the sea to the bay. Passing through this gate,* the bay opens to the right and left, extending in each direction about 35 miles, having a total length of more than 70, and a coast of about 275 miles.
Sivu 57 - The barbarians are like beasts, and not to be ruled on the same principles as citizens. Were any one to attempt controlling them by the great maxims of reason, it would tend to nothing but confusion. The ancient kings well understood this, and accordingly ruled barbarians by misrule. Therefore, to rule barbarians by misrule is the true and the best way of ruling them.
Sivu 97 - ... streams have a short launch navigation, which serves to convey produce to the bay. Missions and large farms were established at the head of navigation on these streams, which are favorable sites for towns or villages. The country around the Suisoon bay presents smooth low ridges and rounded hills, clothed with wild oats, and more or less openly wooded on their summits. Approaching its northern shores from Sonoma it assumes, though in a state of nature, a cultivated and beautiful appearance. Wild...
Sivu 96 - The bay of San Francisco is separated from the sea by low mountain ranges. Looking from the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, the coast mountains present an apparently continuous line, with only a single gap, resembling a mountain pass. This is the entrance to the great bay, and is the only water communication from the coast to the interior country. Approaching from the sea, the coast presents a bold outline. On the south, the bordering mountains come down in a narrow ridge of broken hills, terminating...
Sivu 23 - Fokien, the dry, dirty, and damaged leaves and stalks of the tea are thrown aside, they are then mixed with a glutinous substance, pressed into moulds, and dried in ovens. These blocks are called by the Russians, on account of their shape, brick tea. The Mongols, the Bouriats, the inhabitants of Siberia, beyond lake Baikal, and the Kalmucks, take a piece of this tea, pound it in a mortar made on purpose, and throw the powder into a cast-iron vessel, full of boiling water, which they suffer to stand...
Sivu 51 - In the evening he went on shore, in order to draw up a circumstantial report of his proceedings. The city of Chakodade, the second in magnitude on the island, is situated on 'its southern coast, on the declivity of a high circular hill, which rises above the peninsula there formed : it is washed on the south by the Bay of Sangar, and on the north and west by the Bay of Chakodade, which is very convenient for receiving a large fleet. The peninsula forms its junction on the east by a narrow strip of...
Sivu 96 - Asia, it rises into an importance far above that of a mere harbor and deserves a particular notice in any account of maritime California. Its latitudinal position is that of Lisbon; its climate is that of southern Italy; settlements upon it for more than half a century attest its healthiness; bold shores and mountains give it grandeur; the extent and fertility of its dependent country give it great resources for agriculture, commerce, and population.
Sivu 60 - Its warm and cold districts are close by each other. From Kabul you may in a single day go to a place where snow never falls, and in the space of two astronomical hours, you may reach a spot where snow lies always, except now and then when the summer happens to be peculiarly hot. In the districts...