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are much pleased with this book, because it presents us the observations and reasonings of an intelligent man, made at the time when the history of a great and remote empire began to excite attention in Europe. For in later years, when more dissentions had arisen among those who were best able to write this history, or when the various theories which learned men had formed respecting China and her policy, required any certain statement and coloring of facts to support them, such