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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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harbour of Possiet Bay which we visited in
1886. But, on the south, there are several
hundred miles of coastline on which are situated
the Treaty Port of Newchwang, the great naval
base, Port Arthur, and the valuable harbour of
Talien-wan Bay ; the two latter of which are
open all the year round. Manchuria cannot,
therefore, be called inaccessible. Foreign goods
can readily reach its doors, the country products
can be as easily exported, while immigration
from the over-crowded districts of China Proper
flows naturally to it. Its great navigable rivers
render access to the interior still more easy.
The great Amur and its tributaries, the Sungari
and the Ussuri, are navigable for hundreds of
miles, and steam launches have penetrated so
far into the interior as Kirin. In the south,
the Yalu and the Liao rivers are both navi-
gable for some distance from their mouth,
and are most valuable for the means they offer
of floating rafts of timber down them to the
coast.
The hilly character of so great a portion of
the country is somewhat of a drawback to de-
velopment, for the distant mountain glens afford
asylums for lawless brigands, and over a succes-
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