Excerpt from Pictorial History of China and India: Comprising a Description of Those Countries and Their Inhabitants, Embracing the Historical Events, Government, Religion, Education, Language, Literature, Arts, Manufactures, Productions, Commerce, and Manners and Customs of the People In the preparation of this volume, the Editor has had ample material, so much presented itself of interest in relation to both countries. Among works recently published, he acknowledges his indebtedness to Miss Corner's inter esting volumes on China and India, and Sirr'e China and the Chinese, from both of which valuable works he has drawn liberally to enrich his vol ume. The Chinese Repository, Smith's Explanatory Tour, and works by Murray, Knight, and others, on China and India, were also sources of much valuable information.

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