Hong-Kong, it may be briefly remarked, has been pronounced by all recent navigators, whose judgment is trustworthy, as capable of affording admirable shelter for ships of any burden.
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Hong-Kong, it may be briefly remarked, has been pronounced by all recent navigators, whose judgment is trustworthy, as capable of affording admirable shelter for ships of any burden.
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It appears from a Parliamentary paper lately published, that a sum of £80,000 is required to defray the charge of the British settlement at Hong-Kong, and of the consular establishments at the five ports in China open to British trade.
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Here we have a few thousand Chinamen, ninety per cent of whom are from Canton and Hong-Kong, and all of the lowest social grade, or sons of such who were.
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The harbour of Hong-kong is famed among foreign residents in China for its extreme healthiness; and many a sojourner at Macao, after trying what medicine and exercise could do for him there, has at length repaired to Hong-kong, and found what he had so long sought in vain.
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