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ACROSS CHRYSE:
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386 Tiie Publishers' Circular May 1 , i 8 g
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Being the Narrative of a Journey of Exploration through the SOUTH CHINA M BORDER LANDS , FROCANTON TO MANDALAY , BY ARCHIBALD Ifc . COLqUHOUiy , Executive Engineer , Indian Public Works , F . R . G . S ., A . M . Inst . C . E . With Two Original Mapsand about 3 OO Illustrations , mostly from , Original Photographs and Sketches . In Two Volumes . Demy 8 vo . cloth extra , £ 2 . 2 $ . [ 2 \ ow ready . Extract from a long review in THE TIMES , April 23 , 1883 . 'Across Chbyse , —No book could possibly appear more opportunely than these interesting volumes , in -which Mi . Archibald Colquhoun describes his remarkable journey from Canton to Mandalay . Mr . Colquhoun is the latest " pioneer of commerce" in the border lands of the neighbouring empires of India and China , and in some respects his "work will be admitted t *> have "been more remarkable than any preceding exploration in that part of China . He followed a new line of country , part of which had not been previously traversed by a European , and , if he had the advantage of his predecessors ' experience , he brought new lights to bear on a subject which is acquiring fresh interest every day , at the same time that it holds out better hopes of practical settlement . The question of direct land communication between India and China is one to which the Governments of neither of those countries can feel indifference , and the natural progress of events will be indubitably hastened by the action of the French in Anaam Mr . Colquhoun ' s volumes would be a welcome addition to our geographical knowledge at any time ; they are doubly welcome , coming as they do at a crisis in the affairs of the Indo-Chinese peninsula . We think that his experiences and observations , which he has placed before the reader in such a clear and pleasant form * will not fail to bring home to the dullest and most apathetic mind the fact that the route advocated by him will before very long be one of the principal highways of commerce , and that these border lands of two great empires are destined to become at no distant date the scene of a most active and not less useful or remunerative trade . Mr . Colquhoun ' s narrative is so fresh and graphic that it is needless to "bespeak for it the attention it will readily command ; and his " Across Chryse "—the golden land of the geographer Ptolemy—will be generally allowed a place among the most remarkable records of important missions of exploration in southwestern China There will be but one opinion on the subject of the service Mr . Colquhoun lias rendered by his journey and by these volumes towards the increase of English trade intercourse in the vast region watered by the upper courses of the Mekong and Songcoi , and inhabited for the most part , by Shan and other tribes , who are at present virtually independent . He shows , on the excellent maps accompanying these volumes , how it would be possible to construct a railway from British Burrnah through the Shen country to Puerh and Ssumas , the southern limits of his tour in Yunnan ; and he proposes to return forthwith for the purpose of traversing this projected route . The subject is one veil worthy of the closest attention by the Government of India , and , should Mr . Colquhoun ' s further investigations pro \ e successful , no effort should be spared to give early effect to any practicable I recommendations for developing this new trade route . "What Mr . Colquhoun has already accomp lished supplies the best reason for arguing the success of his further journey , and in " Across Chryse" the public will find solid stores of information about one of the most promising outlets for our future trade that we ca . n see in any part of the world . The numerous illustrations , which lend a special character to the volumes , as throwing quite a new light on the varied features of the scenery and inhabitants of China , claim a closing word of notice and commendation . From Leading Article in THE DAILY NEWS , April 26 . ' Under the quaint title , " Across Chryse , " Mr . Oolquhoun presents the public , through Messrs . Sampson l » ow & Co ., with a welcome narrative of his bold and enterprising journey from Canton across China to Mandalay in Burmah . ' I ) SAMPSON Crown LOW Buildings , MABSTOJST , 188 Flei , 't SEARLE Street , London , & E RIVINGTON . C . " , ( 2 ad ) 1 ^
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 1, 1883, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01051883/page/22/
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