Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Volume 40 (Paperback)

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. 1895 Excerpt: ...to the Antarctic Continent. Manchuria, familiar by name to all who followed the story of te war between China and Japan, is excellently described by the Rev. John Ross, who has lived there for twenty years. It is a great plain, lying between the port of New-Chwang, on the south, and the Amur River, on the northeast. It ia bounded on the west by the hills of Mongolia and on the east by low mountain ranges. The highest peak is the Ever-white Mountain, about 8,000 feet in elevation. From thia mountain flow the rivers Usuri, Sungari, Yalu and Liao. Immense rafts of timber--pine, oak and walnut--are floated down the Yalu, and the vast crops of grain find their way to New-Chwang by the river Liao. The soil is extremely fertile, and the climate is not unlike that of the upper. Mississippi valley. There are five months of winter, four and a half of summer, one rt spring and one and a half of autumn. The coldest weather is about 17 below zero, the hottest 100 in tne shade. The people are mostly Chinese, very indnsinous'and orderly, and they number, Mr; Bss Uniit, not less than 25,000,000. Besides agriculture they practice most of the industries, and they arc famous furne and Uinnei-8. Food, fuel and clothingrare olteap amog them, and the taxation is probably the lightest world. Mo. Borbadaile, of: the Bombay GiU: Servl, printed an account of a journey made in WoiHie golia in 1893. He crossed the Gobi Desert to UP twenty days, and there turned'to the went, t," agreeing to land him at Uliassutai in fcwenty-nv It was the middle of May when he started _t"; with perfect weather. The air was exhila"VT deai rf counti-y very beautiful. There was a gwf. traffic--ox wagons laden with hides, fanuliw moJ with their goods packed on camels, men an, y leading strings o...