A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, Or, a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions Volume 5, No. 1.cDr James Bell
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Author: Dr James Bell
Number of Pages: 184 pages
Published Date: 09 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
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ISBN: 9781231109311
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ... town, contains nothing remarkable but the tomb of a Mandshoor monarch.--Fong-whang-ching is the best and most populous city of this province, and enjoys a very great commerce, being the key to the peninsula of Korea, which has drawn to it a very considerable number of Chinese, who dwell in the suburbs. Its chief manufacture is cotton paper, very strong and durable, but neither white nor transparent--Lyau-yang is also a.considerable city The chief places in Mandshooria Proper are Kirin Oola Hotun or Ooanlin, the largest town of the country; Naun Kolun on the Nonni; Ningoota, the capital of a military government; Merghen, and Saghalien Oola-Holun, or ' city of the black river;' Petune, and Poolay Oola Hotun. These are all the places of note in this desolate and extensive region, and are mostly peopled with soldiers and exiles, the country seemingly being used for no other purpose but that of banishment. The principal Mandshoor families have all left the country, and followed the court to Peking, so that it has been materially injured by the conquest of China. The cities above mentioned are all very ill built, the houses and the walls surrounding the towns being constructed only of mud. The Jesuit fathers, who traversed this region to the S. of the Amoor, found numbers of ruined towns, and several antique remains, as several great stone stair-cases at Odoli Holun, a ruined city, with the vestiges of a royal palace, the like of which is no where else to be found here. These seem to have been the work of the Kin in the 12th century when their power was dominant in Central Asia. Above Saghalien Oola Hotun on the north side of the river are the ruins of Aykom, a Chinese fortress, built by the suceesors of Hong-voo to repress the incursions of the Tartars. However...
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