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Excerpt from Ling-Nam: Or Interior Views of Southern China, Including Explorations in the Hitherto Untraversed Island of Hainan
The maps of Central Canton, Northern Canton, and the Island of Hainan have been prepared from the author's ms. Notes, and, with five obvious exceptions, the illustrations are fac-simile reproductions of ink sketches taken by a native artist.
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Synopsis
Excerpt from Ling-Nam: Or Interior Views of Southern China, Including Explorations in the Hitherto Untraversed Island of Hainan
Part from the cursory glances bestowed by travellers upon the coast cities and their immediate surroundings, but little is known by the general public of the extent and nature of the Empire of China, while the great interior, with all its rich variation of surface, is.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.