The Chinese Commercial Guide, Containing Treaties, Tariffs, Regulations, Tables, Etc: Useful in the Trade to China & Eastern Asia; with an Appendix of Sailing Directions for Those Seas and Coasts |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
| 314 | |
| 323 | |
| 355 | |
| 370 | |
| 375 | |
| 381 | |
| 180 | |
| 187 | |
| 204 | |
| 211 | |
| 217 | |
| 229 | |
| 238 | |
| 250 | |
| 262 | |
| 276 | |
| 283 | |
| 295 | |
| 308 | |
| 10 | |
| 4 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | |
| 26 | |
| 29 | |
| 38 | |
| 45 | |
| 1 | |
| 7 | |
Other editions - View all
The Chinese Commercial Guide, Containing Treaties, Tariffs, Regulations ... Samuel Wells Williams No preview available - 2015 |
The Chinese Commercial Guide, Containing Treaties, Tariffs, Regulations ... Samuel Wells Williams No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
anchor anchorage appears approach authorities avoid bank bearing boats British cables called Canton Cape carried cent channel charges China Chinese clear close coast consul Customs dangerous depth direction distance dollars duty east eastern eastward enter entrance equal export extends extreme fathoms feet feet high foreign half a mile harbour head high water hill imported inches island islet keep land latter lead lies low water lying measure miles monsoon named native nearly north-east northern northward obtained officers pass passage peak picul port reef regulations rise river rock round rules runs ship shoal shore side silver soundings south-west southern southward steer subjects taels taken tide town trade treaty vessel weight western westward wide wind
Popular passages
Page 1 - ... mutual benefit, and, for that purpose, have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: || Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 240 - All questions in regard to rights, whether of property, or person, arising between citizens of the United States in China, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of, and regulated by, the authorities of their own government.
Page 243 - Pekin, within a year from this day of signature. In token whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Treaty.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Chinese Commercial Guide, Containing Treaties, Tariffs, Regulations, Tables, Etc: Useful in the Trade to China & Eastern Asia; with an Appendix of Sailing Directions for Those Seas and Coasts Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890 |
| Author | Samuel Wells Williams |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | A. Shortrede & Company, 1863 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 653 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |