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The Asiatic Journal for November (New Series) 1831

1831

The account inserted in the appeni lix to the report of the Commissioners of Inquiry upon the trade of the Cape of Good Hope * gives the follow* as a return of the estimated 'value of the exports and imports betweerthe Cape and India including the Mauritius :— - - From this 4atement it would appear that the eastern trade of the Cape has diminished in about the same ratio as encouragement and fa [...] In the petition of the merchants ship-owners trwlers and other inhabtants of the Cape presented to Parliament last vcir they alloge first the enormous high price of tea in the colony Iiv reason of the monopoly of the Company to the great injury of the colonial revenue and the diminution of the comforts of the people ;" and secondly "the benehits they have a right to expect from this [...] Situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan the archipelago is separated on the west from the Corca by the strait of Tsu-sinia and on the north from the island of Yeso by the strait of Tsu-gar called Sangar by European navgators. [...] The founder of the Japanese monarchy accoring to the tradition of the people gave to the great island we call Niphon the name of Aki-tsu-sinia that is " Island of the Dragon-fly " from the supposed resemblance of its form to that insect. [...] The Ikogawa rises on Mount SanOtoOki on the frontier of Sinano and Moots; it tralrerses a part of the latter where it receives the Datami on the left and on the right the waters of the salt lake of Inaba.
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Pages
95
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120104
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
The China Trade at the Cape of Good Hope
185-191 unknown view
Account of Japan
192-207 unknown view
Oriental Review
207-211 unknown view
The Indian Army
212-213 unknown view
Trade between Great Britain and India
214-222 unknown view
Musulman Saints of India
222-222 unknown view
Haji Khalifeh’s “Tufat Alkbar”
223-227 unknown view
Sketch of the History of Georgia
228-238 unknown view
Ode of Hafiz
239-239 unknown view
Petitions to Parliament
240-241 unknown view
The Arabic Versions of the Scriptures
242-254 unknown view
Constitution of the Kandyan Kingdom
254-259 unknown view
Chinese Buddhism
260-266 unknown view
Anecdote of Akbar Shah
266-266 unknown view
Miscellanies Original and Select
267-270 unknown view
Critical Notices
270-272 unknown view

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