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Excerpt from The a Romance of Peking
Sir robert hart. Bart., inspector-general OF the imperial maritime cus toms OF china AT peking, who for forty years has controlled the destinies of hundreds of Europeans and Americans scattered among the thirty Treaty Ports of the vast littoral of China, and to Whom is due most of the real progress that China has made toward commercial civilization.
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