Five Months on the Yang-Tsze: With a Narrative of the Exploration of Its Upper Waters, and Notices of the Present Rebellions in ChinaJ. Murray, 1862 - 380 páginas |
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Página xviii - Thy people ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Página 201 - ... their heads, puffing out whiffs of smoke and taking great gulps of tea. This apathy was really beginning to provoke us, when one of these worthy Chinese, getting up from his seat, came and laid his two hands on our shoulders, in a manner quite paternal, and said, smiling rather ironically, ' Listen to me, my friend ! why should you trouble your heart and fatigue your head by all these vain surmises ? The Mandarins have to attend to affairs of state ; they are paid for it. Let them earn their...
Página 57 - Hanyang, a spectator looks down on almost as much water as land even when the rivers are low. At his feet sweeps the magnificent Yangtsze, nearly a mile in width ; from the west, and skirting the northern edge of the range of hills already mentioned, comes the river Han, narrow and canal-like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country ; and to the north-west and north is an extensive treeless flat, so little elevated above the river that the scattered hamlets which dot its...
Página 57 - Han — is situated just where an irregular range of semi-detached low hills crosses a particularly level country on both sides of the main river, in an east and west direction. Stationed on Pagoda Hill, a spectator looks down on almost as much water as land, even when the rivers are low. At his feet sweeps the magnificent...
Página 105 - I-chang, or rather its smoke, and the pagoda about a couple of miles below the place, are within sight a long way down, and I thought at the time that I had never beheld a more beautiful river-scene. On either hand the banks had become high and precipitous, bold cliffs of rock rose immediately from the deep water.
Página 48 - should have been called ' a vast plain' or ' enormous fertile valley,' is to me inexplicable. More variation of surface, perhaps, does not occur in any country ; and where we should be most inclined to look for such features, namely, on its great artery, there it is diversified enough to please the most exacting of tourists. Commencing at the mouth of the Yang-tsze-kiang, there is naturally a considerable extent of flat alluvial land, the delta of the river, where once, no doubt, the ocean held...
Página 45 - Taipings becoming the dominant power in China, because they are simply unable to govern themselves, except by a species of most objectionable terrorism. But neither do I see any prospect of the Manchoos reinstating themselves in their former position. There is more or less rebellion (not always Taiping) in every province except one in China. Something will spring from this state of disorder to restore order, as has been the case a dozen times before in the empire.
Página 124 - Lu-kan" gorge, by which the river escapes, as through a funnel. As we entered, the gloom was very impressive; huge walls of rock rise vertically on either hand to a prodigious height, with great table-shaped slabs standing out from the face of the cliff, for all the world like the...
Página 183 - It would seem as if the richness and beauty of Sse-tchouen had exercised a great influence on its inhabitants ; for their manners are much superior to those of the Chinese of the other provinces. The great towns are, at least relatively, clean and neat. The aspect of the villages, and even of the farms, bears witness to the comfortable circumstances of their inhabitants ; and throughout Sse-tchouen you hear nothing of the unintelligible patois so common in the other provinces; the language is nearly...
Página 105 - On either hand the banks had become high and precipitous, bold cliffs of rock rose immediately from the deep water. To our left hand as we ascended — that is, beyond the river's right bank — was entirely a mountainous country, and we could observe it extended to the northward beyond the town...