NINGPO
TO
SHANGHAI
in 1857.
[VIA THE BORDERS OF AN-WHUI PROVINCE,
HOO-CHOW-FOO AND THE GRAND CANAL.]
CANTON:
printed at the "friend of china" office.
[The writer regrets his inability to furnish the Chinese characters promised on page 1.—The M.S. of them, besides some lithographed plates and other papers, of which use would have been made in this publication, were lost during the Vandal-like proceedings of the Hongkong Government for what was deemed a libel on its Lieutenant Governor in 1859.]
The appended wood cut gives an approximation to the tracks out and home. As stated above, the distance and course from Fong-je-how, by the Canal and River Tsien-tang to Fu-yang, had to be guessed at; and the following latitudes and longitudes of the cities visited, as found in the Chinese Repository for 1844, do not coincide with the places laid down on the Southern line.
Sing-chong hien 昌新 in Shou-hing-fu. Lat. 29.32,—Long 120, 50.
Dzing 山東 or Shing-hien in Shou-hing-fu. Lat. 29.36—Long 120, 42, 47.
Fu-yang hien 富陽 in Hang-chow-fu.* Lat. 30.04, 47,—Long 119, 55, 37.
Ling-ngan hien 臨安 in Hang-chow-fu. Lat. 30.16,—Long 119, 42.
Ngan-kih hien 安吉 in Hu-chow-fu. Lat. 30.40—Long 119, 36.
Hiau-fung hien 孝豐 in Hu-chow-fu. Lat. 30.30—Long 119, 36.
Hoo-chow-fu 湖州 Departmental city.* Lat. 30.52, 48—Long 119, 52, 54.
* According to French observations.
ERRATUM.—In the Index to Order of Travel, for Department of Hoo-chow in "Kiang-su" read in "Che-kiang."