. An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary ; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several
. An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary ; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy . o he brandishes no trident, to call upmonsters from the vasty deep, yet he seems to be consciousof security by the possession of a magnet in one hand,while the dolphin, which he holds in the other, denoteshis power over the inhabitants of the ocean. His beardflowing in all directions, and his agitated locks seemedintended for a personification of that troubled element. EMBASSY TO CHINA. II The circumstance of the divinitys reliance upon a mag- passage up cr • •!•• 1 •• 111 ^^ Pci-ho. net, IS a sumcient indication how intimately the know- „,,,>...^ledge of its properties has been incorporated with themythological doctrines of the Chinese ; as well as atwhat an early period that knowledge must have beenapplied to navigation. They who suppose, indeed,from various allusions in ancient authors, as well as froma consideration of the facility with which pieces of ironplaced in particular positions acquire magnetic qualities,that these were known in Europe also in very remote. 12 EMBASSY TO CHINA. Passage up agjcs, conjecture that the trident itself in the hand of the Pei-ho. T-f ^. , . ^ , , , r 1 ? JNeptune is less a magic wand, than an emblem ot thatunerring guidance which the magnet is capable of sup-plying. Not far from the Hai-chin-miao, or temple of the seagod, was the hall of audience of Ta-coo. It was situ-ated in the midst of a sp
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