LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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82. | Shiftings of the Hoang-ho during Three Thousand Years | 182 |
83. | Recent Shiftings of the Hoang-ho | 183 |
84. | Yellow Sea | 186 |
85. | Terrace Lands of Shansi | 188 |
86. | Utai-shan | 189 |
87. | Yellow Lands of North China | 190 |
88. | Singan and the Lower Wei-ho Valley | 193 |
89. | Comparative Discharge of the Yang-tze and other Rivers | 197 |
90. | Navigable Course of the Yang-tze and its Tributaries | 198 |
91. | Old Mouths of the Yang-tze | 204 |
92. | Channels and Breakwaters between the Hoang-ho and Yang-tze | 205 |
93. | Channels and Breakwaters between the Hoang-ho and Yang-tze | 206 |
94. | Mountains between Tatsienlu and Batang | 207 |
95. | From the Min Valley to Tatsienlu | 208 |
96. | The Sechuen Highlands | 213 |
97. | Races of South-west China | 216 |
98. | Chingtu-fu Basin | 221 |
99. | The Tsing-ling and Singan | 223 |
100. | Course of the Yang-tze above the Gorges | 224 |
101. | I-chang Gorges | 225 |
102. | Wuchang: View taken from the Tower of the Yellow Crane (Hoang-ho-lew) | 228 |
103. | Hankow and surrounding Lakes | 229 |
104. | Nanking | 230 |
105. | Chingkiang | 232 |
106. | Shanghai and the Hoang-pu | 233 |
107. | Shanghai | 234 |
108. | Suchew before the Taïping War | 235 |
109. | Hangchew and the Si-hu | 237 |
110. | Ningpo and Tsinhai | 238 |
111. | Grand Chusan and Putu | 239 |
112. | Mouth of the Min | 243 |
113. | Fuchew-fu | 244 |
114. | Shui-kow, on the Upper Min, Fokien | 245 |
115. | Amoy | 246 |
116. | Comparative Temperature of Canton and other Towns | 251 |
117. | Inhabitants of Kwangtung | 252 |
118. | Female Coiffure, Swatow | 254 |
119. | Canton, Whampoa, and Honan Island | 256 |
120. | Hong Kong | 258 |
121. | Hong Kong: View taken from Kowlun | 259 |
122. | Macao | 260 |
123. | Pakhoï | 261 |
124. | Wei-chew | 262 |
125. | Upper Song-koi Valley | 265 |
126. | Chinese of Yunnan | 268 |
127. | Route between Momein and Tali-fu | 269 |
128. | Tali-fu and Lake Tali | 270 |
129. | Yunnan | 272 |
130. | Hainan Strait | 273 |
131. | Formosa and Fokien Strait | 276 |
132. | Highland Landscape, Formosa | 277 |
133. | Typhoon of the "Novara" | 279 |
134. | Pepo-hoan Woman and Child | 282 |
135. | Kelung | 283 |
136. | Grand Lu-chew, according to an old Chinese Map | 284 |
137. | Density of the Chinese Population in 1842 | 285 |
138. | Singan-fu | 286 |
139. | Irrigating Pump, South China | 287 |
140. | Relative Importance of the Crops in the Chinese Provinces | 288 |
141. | Chief Crops of China | 293 |
142. | Mines of Shantung | 296 |
143. | Mines of Yunnan | 298 |
144. | Portage in Chekiang | 300 |
145. | Chinese Treaty Ports | 302 |
146. | General View of Nanking | 306 |
147. | Routes, Telegraphs, and Lines of Steam Navigation in China | 307 |
148. | Signal Towers | 309 |
149. | Range of Chinese Migration | 310 |
150. | M. Yang, Attaché of the Chinese Legation in Paris | 313 |
151. | Chinese Quarter, Shanghai | 316 |
152. | Summer Palace—Bronze Lions, Emblems of the Imperial Power | 318 |
153. | Vagrant Convicts | 325 |
154. | Defences of the Mouth of the Peï-ho | 329 |
155. | Provincial Chief Towns, Fu and Chew, in China | 332 |
156. | General View of Kang-hoa, Lower Hang-kiang | 335 |
157. | Korea Strait | 336 |
158. | Explorations of Korea and surrounding Waters | 337 |
159. | South-west Archipelago of Korea | 338 |
160. | Entrance to the Gulf of Pechili | 342 |
161. | Island of Quelpaert | 343 |
162. | Han-kang, or Seul River | 352 |
163. | Administrative Divisions of Korea | 353 |
164. | Curves of the Japanese Archipelago | 357 |
165. | Strait of Yeso | 359 |
166. | The Kurile Islands | 360 |
167. | Paramushir Island—Kuriles | 361 |
168. | Section of the Sea of Okhotsk | 362 |
169. | Tsugar Strait, between Yeso and Hondo | 363 |
170. | Mouths of the Tone-gava | 365 |
171. | Oga-sima Island, and Ohokata-hatsiro Sea | 366 |
172. | Nikko—Portico of the Temple of the Four Dragons | 368 |