An historical, geographical and philosophical view of the Chinese empire By William Winterbotham (1795):
China properly so called according to Grofier and Du-Halde comprehends from north to south eighteen degrees; its extent from east to west being somewhat less. The adjacent countries subjected to the Chinese government, such as the islands of Hainan and Formosa, Tartary &c are not included in this estimation; for reckoning from the most southern point of the island of Hainan to the northern extremity of Tartary which is under the dominion of China, we shall find that the territories of this emperor are more than nine hundred leagues in extent from north to south and about fifteen hundred from east to west, reckoning from the eastern sea as far as the country of
Cafgar conquered by the Chinese in 1759. According to Guthrie, China is situated between 20 degrees and 42 degrees N latitude nad 98 and 123 E longitude. It is boauded on the north by Tartary from which it is separated by a wall five hundred leagues in length; on the east by the sea; on the west by lofty mountains and deserts; and towards the south by the ocean, the kingdoms of Tong-king, Laos and Cochin china It is divided into fifteen provinces; the northem are CHEN-SI, CHAN-SI and PE-TCHELI. CHAN-TONG, KIANG-NAN TCHE-KIANG and FO-KIEN extend along the shore of the eastern sea. The provinces of QUANG-TONG, QUANG-SI, YUN-NAN and SE-THUEN terminate the empire on the south and north. HO-NAN, HOU-QUANG,and KIANG-SI occupy the middle space of each of these provinces.
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 Chapter 16
“I shall walk down immediately after breakfast,” said he, “and am sure of giving pleasure there. And now, dear Fanny, I will not interrupt you any longer. You want to be reading. But I could not be easy till I had spoken to you, and come to a decision. Sleeping or waking, my head has been full of this matter all night. It is an evil, but I am certainly making it less than it might be. If Tom is up, I shall go to him directly and get it over, and when we meet at breakfast we shall be all in high good–humour at the prospect of acting the fool together with such unanimity. You, in the meanwhile, will be taking a trip into China, I suppose. How does Lord Macartney go on?”—opening a volume on the table and then taking up some others. “And here are Crabbe’s Tales, and the Idler, at hand to relieve you, if you tire of your great book. I admire your little establishment exceedingly; and as soon as I am gone, you will empty your head of all this nonsense of acting, and sit comfortably down to your table. But do not stay here to be cold.”He went; but there was no reading, no China, no composure for Fanny. He had told her the most extraordinary, the most inconceivable, the most unwelcome news; and she could think of nothing else. |
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