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"“It is without exception the finest city I have seen in China; Peking and Canton will not bear comparison with it.”"

"… and single travellers will come all the way from Canton or Si-ngan fu to take back a small load of it."

"but in Canton, in 1844, they were 1 to 17; and Timkowski states that at Peking in 1821 the finest gold was valued at 18 to 1."

"in the forests between Zayton and Canton."

"…the portage from Chang-shan to Yuh-shan was passed by the English and Dutch embassies on their journeys from Hang-chau to Canton."

"Fo-kien alone has been known to send to Canton in one year 4000 piculs (of 133⅓ lbs. each), but the average is 2500 to 3000."

"Giovanni did not get to Zayton; but two years later he got to Canton with Fernão Perez, was sent ashore as Factor, and a few days after died of fever."

"Pine [Pinus sinensis] is [still] the staple timber for ship‐building both at Canton and in Fo‐kien. There is a very large export of it from Fu‐chau..."

"The Chinese also have their tailed men in the mountains above Canton."

"Sínkalán, Sín-ul-Sín, Mahá-chin, or Canton, i. 294n, ii. 175n, 243n, 252n"

"They were recruited largely from Canton, for the Cantonese are short and strong and durable, and also they are not quarrelsome."