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Citation Information
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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
THE unexpected amount of favour bestowed on the
former edition of this Work has been a great en-
couragement to the Editor in preparing this second one.
Not a few of the kind friends and correspondents
who lent their aid before have continued it to the
present revision. The contributions of Mr. A. WYLIE
of Shang-hai, whether as regards the amount of labour
which they must have cost him, or the value of the
result, demand above all others a grateful record here.
Nor can I omit to name again with hearty acknowledg-
ment Signor Comm. G. BERCHET of Venice, the
Rev. Dr. CALDWELL, Colonel (now Major-General)
R. MACLAGAN, R.E., Mr. D. HANBURY, F. R. S., Mr.
EDWARD THOMAS, F.R.S. (Corresponding Member of
the Institute), and Mr. R. H. MAJOR.
But besides these old names, not a few new ones
claim my thanks.
The Baron F. VON RICIITHOFEN, now President of
the Geographical Society of Berlin, a traveller who
not only has trodden many hundreds of miles in the
footsteps of our Marco, but has perhaps travelled over
more of the Interior of China than Marco ever did, and
who carried to that survey high scientific accomplish-
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