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228 China and the Chinese. A. series of pictures Illustrative of the cities, fellings, trade, religion, and amusements of the Chinese. 1 The harbour of Hong Kong 2 Whampoa, from Dane’s Island 3 A street in Canton 4 Western gate of Peking 5 Entrance of Amoy 6 West gate, Ching Keang Foo 7 Porcelain Tower, Nanking 8 Bridge of Nanking 9 Great Wall of China 10 Termination of the Great Wall 11 Bamboo aqueduct near Hong Kong 12 House of a merchant in Canton 13 Interior of mandarin’s house, Nanking 14 Dinner party at mandarin’s house 15 Boudoir and bedchamber of a lady of rank 16 Ladies of mandarin’s fomily at cards *7 Jugglers exhibiting in the court of man- darin’s house 18 Pavilion and gardens of a mandarin in Peking 19 Silk farm at How Chow to Feeding silkworms and sorting the cocoona 21 Keeling silk 22 Winding and dyeing silk 23 Culture and preparation of tea 24 The drying of tea, Sec, * »5 Transplanting rice 26 Irrigating wheel, Melon’s Island 27 Shop of a lantern merchant 28 Shop of a cap dealer, Canton 29 An itinerant doctor 30 An itinerant barber 31 Temple of Buddha, Canton 32 Grand Temple at Honan, Canton 33 Temple of Confucius, Ching Hai 34 Altar-piece. Great Temple, Ting Hai 35 Consulting the sticks of fate 16 Marriage procession j7 Arrival of marriage presents at bride’s house 38 Ceremony of meeting the Spring 39 Festival of the Dragon Boat 40 Scene from the Pantomime of the Sun and Moon 41 Kite-flying on the 9th day of the moon ^,2 Playing at shuttlecock with the feet 4.3 Bargemen fighting quails 44 Opium smokers Natural Phenomena. 1 Avalanches 2 Glaciers 3 Glacier tables 4 Snow bridges 5 Icebergs 6 Ice-floes 7 Coral reefs t Photograph of piece of cora Natural Phenomena (cominutd) 9 Waterspouts 10 The rainbow 11 The aurora borealis 12 Halo’s 13 The fata Morgana 14 The ignus fatus, or Will-o’-the-Wisp 15 Falls of Niagara 16 The Geysers, or boiling springs of Iceland 17 Natural bridges I 8 Prairie on fire 19 Fingal’s cave Giant’s Causeways, Pkotoi from Natun , 20 The Giant’s loom II ,, „ gateway 22 Near view of the column 23 The amphitheatre 24 The Giant’s causeway 25 „ „ well 26 „ „ portrait ROME, The Capital of the Cassars and the Popes, Its Ancient and Modern Buildings, its People, and their Rulers. From Rome,'’* by permission of Messn, Chapman and Hall, 1 Entry to the Forum, by the Via Sacra 2 Interior of the Forum, Temples of Saturn and Vespasian, &c, 3 General view of the Coliseum 4 Interior of the Coliseum 5 Arch of Titus 6 Bas-reliefs on the Arch of Titus 7 Arch of Constantine 8 Arch of Septimius Severus 9 Column of Trojan 10 The Appian Way, Mole of Caecilia Metella 11 Pyramid of Caius Cestius i^ S^bterr^inean Altar, Tombs of Chaleb 13 Paintings on the Tablinum of LWIa 14 View on the Tiber, in front of the Cloac maxima 15 Temple of Antoninus 16 The Roman Forum in 1872 17 Mount Aventine 18 View from the Palatine 19 Gate of St. Paul, or Ostiensii 20 The Fountain of the Trevi 21 The Market of the Piazza Navona 22 PiazM Navona and the Church of St Agr. i