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encouraged by the already 1 rd constantly increasing interest felt in all parts of the Civilized world with relation to China, Japan, and the adjacen* Countries.. With Peking and Yedo open to travellers and officials, with the whole Empire of China accessible to explorers, and the barriers hitherto so jealously maintained in Japan becoming daily weakened, numbers of new facts and much curious information is being accumulated in the notebooks of duals, who are glad to preserve in type many little particulars, for embodying which ina form accessible to the public, no means now exist. Allnotes and inquiries received are classified and indexed'with minute care; whilst, as in the home work which has been adopted as a model, a list of books wanted, or for diso poral relating to China or Japan is inserted free of charge.
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