LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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| 82. | Shiftings of the Hoang-ho during Three Thousand Years | 182 |
| 83. | Recent Shiftings of the Hoang-ho | 183 |
| 84. | Yellow Sea | 186 |
| 85. | Terrace Lands of Shansi | 188 |
| 86. | Utai-shan | 189 |
| 87. | Yellow Lands of North China | 190 |
| 88. | Singan and the Lower Wei-ho Valley | 193 |
| 89. | Comparative Discharge of the Yang-tze and other Rivers | 197 |
| 90. | Navigable Course of the Yang-tze and its Tributaries | 198 |
| 91. | Old Mouths of the Yang-tze | 204 |
| 92. | Channels and Breakwaters between the Hoang-ho and Yang-tze | 205 |
| 93. | Channels and Breakwaters between the Hoang-ho and Yang-tze | 206 |
| 94. | Mountains between Tatsienlu and Batang | 207 |
| 95. | From the Min Valley to Tatsienlu | 208 |
| 96. | The Sechuen Highlands | 213 |
| 97. | Races of South-west China | 216 |
| 98. | Chingtu-fu Basin | 221 |
| 99. | The Tsing-ling and Singan | 223 |
| 100. | Course of the Yang-tze above the Gorges | 224 |
| 101. | I-chang Gorges | 225 |
| 102. | Wuchang: View taken from the Tower of the Yellow Crane (Hoang-ho-lew) | 228 |
| 103. | Hankow and surrounding Lakes | 229 |
| 104. | Nanking | 230 |
| 105. | Chingkiang | 232 |
| 106. | Shanghai and the Hoang-pu | 233 |
| 107. | Shanghai | 234 |
| 108. | Suchew before the Taïping War | 235 |
| 109. | Hangchew and the Si-hu | 237 |
| 110. | Ningpo and Tsinhai | 238 |
| 111. | Grand Chusan and Putu | 239 |
| 112. | Mouth of the Min | 243 |
| 113. | Fuchew-fu | 244 |
| 114. | Shui-kow, on the Upper Min, Fokien | 245 |
| 115. | Amoy | 246 |
| 116. | Comparative Temperature of Canton and other Towns | 251 |
| 117. | Inhabitants of Kwangtung | 252 |
| 118. | Female Coiffure, Swatow | 254 |
| 119. | Canton, Whampoa, and Honan Island | 256 |
| 120. | Hong Kong | 258 |
| 121. | Hong Kong: View taken from Kowlun | 259 |
| 122. | Macao | 260 |
| 123. | Pakhoï | 261 |
| 124. | Wei-chew | 262 |
| 125. | Upper Song-koi Valley | 265 |
| 126. | Chinese of Yunnan | 268 |
| 127. | Route between Momein and Tali-fu | 269 |
| 128. | Tali-fu and Lake Tali | 270 |
| 129. | Yunnan | 272 |
| 130. | Hainan Strait | 273 |
| 131. | Formosa and Fokien Strait | 276 |
| 132. | Highland Landscape, Formosa | 277 |
| 133. | Typhoon of the "Novara" | 279 |
| 134. | Pepo-hoan Woman and Child | 282 |
| 135. | Kelung | 283 |
| 136. | Grand Lu-chew, according to an old Chinese Map | 284 |
| 137. | Density of the Chinese Population in 1842 | 285 |
| 138. | Singan-fu | 286 |
| 139. | Irrigating Pump, South China | 287 |
| 140. | Relative Importance of the Crops in the Chinese Provinces | 288 |
| 141. | Chief Crops of China | 293 |
| 142. | Mines of Shantung | 296 |
| 143. | Mines of Yunnan | 298 |
| 144. | Portage in Chekiang | 300 |
| 145. | Chinese Treaty Ports | 302 |
| 146. | General View of Nanking | 306 |
| 147. | Routes, Telegraphs, and Lines of Steam Navigation in China | 307 |
| 148. | Signal Towers | 309 |
| 149. | Range of Chinese Migration | 310 |
| 150. | M. Yang, Attaché of the Chinese Legation in Paris | 313 |
| 151. | Chinese Quarter, Shanghai | 316 |
| 152. | Summer Palace—Bronze Lions, Emblems of the Imperial Power | 318 |
| 153. | Vagrant Convicts | 325 |
| 154. | Defences of the Mouth of the Peï-ho | 329 |
| 155. | Provincial Chief Towns, Fu and Chew, in China | 332 |
| 156. | General View of Kang-hoa, Lower Hang-kiang | 335 |
| 157. | Korea Strait | 336 |
| 158. | Explorations of Korea and surrounding Waters | 337 |
| 159. | South-west Archipelago of Korea | 338 |
| 160. | Entrance to the Gulf of Pechili | 342 |
| 161. | Island of Quelpaert | 343 |
| 162. | Han-kang, or Seul River | 352 |
| 163. | Administrative Divisions of Korea | 353 |
| 164. | Curves of the Japanese Archipelago | 357 |
| 165. | Strait of Yeso | 359 |
| 166. | The Kurile Islands | 360 |
| 167. | Paramushir Island—Kuriles | 361 |
| 168. | Section of the Sea of Okhotsk | 362 |
| 169. | Tsugar Strait, between Yeso and Hondo | 363 |
| 170. | Mouths of the Tone-gava | 365 |
| 171. | Oga-sima Island, and Ohokata-hatsiro Sea | 366 |
| 172. | Nikko—Portico of the Temple of the Four Dragons | 368 |
