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Excerpt from A Cruise in Japanese Waters
WE left the north of China, and sailed from the im portant city of Tientsin, bearing the cheering intelli gence to Shanghai of a treaty of peace having been concluded between the Empires of Great Britain and China, and of the advent of a great era in the history of the latter nation. Henceforth, thanks to allied arms and allied diplomacy, China was open to the enterprise of the missionary, traveller, or merchant, and the ships of England might not only visit her seaboard and enter her harbours, but were at liberty to penetrate to her farthest borders, by means of that noble stream, the Yang-tsi - Keang, which ?ows by and through her rich est, and hitherto most secluded, provinces. Many other valuable concessions were made; but the above-men tioned were those most fraught with change to the Central Land, and with promise to British interests.
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