The Chinese have been writing about the Jubilee, and they say in the native newspapers that what is now the British Settlement was not Jong ago a desolate tract with few inhabitants and a great many graves, where the music of the wind was heard through the willows, and the fox and the squirrel dug their holes. There, too, were to be seen flocking the gull and the heron, except where the men were ploughing and the women and children were weeding and the woodman and the cowboy were passing to and fro, Who would have thought that here would in afew years grow up as by enchantment a city such as now exists? How much cutting away there must have been of tree and briar, grass and shrub before such transformation could take place? Shanghai has sprung into existence from this beginning all within fifty summers and winters, What an amount of work has een put into. voad-making so that a hundred smooth and broad ways might be made for the multitude of iocwes, and carriages now seen everywhere rushing at great speed without obstruction! Then there are the houses where Europeans make themselves extremely comfortable and guests from afar entertained with hospitality are made to feel at home. A large amount: of building Jong continued and the union of many workers under skilful architects with the exercise of great ability were necessary to achieve so splendid a result,
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