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Excerpt from China: And Its Resources, and Peculiarities, Physical, Political, Social, and Commercial; With a View of the Opium Question, and a Notice of Assam
Such are the purposes, and the plan of the work, and such the aid I have had on those parts of the subject, which required a personal knowledge of the people, and their language, and literature. Having said thus much, I leave it, with confidence, to the public to decide the question of its utility.
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