Contact with our civilization must bring with it a more correct conception of the physical universe and dissipate many of these illusions. A knowledge of our sciences will give China a new place in history, and we cannot fail to look with interest upon these first representatives of its capable and extraordinary people among us, who may some day play no small part in the awakening of their country to a knowledge of the resources of the Western World.
[!--Note--] 1 ([return])
The accompanying map of the province of Kwantung is reproduced from the Ho Hoh T'ung Shú ("the Concord Almanac") for the year 1855. The situations of the several districts mentioned in the text are indicated by corresponding figures in red upon the map. The scale of the map is about eighty-five miles to the inch.
[!--Note--] 2 ([return])
Hon. George F. Seward, Chinese Immigration in its Social and Economical Aspects, New York, 1881, p. 191.
[!--Note--] 3 ([return])
The Chinese in New York, The New York Daily Tribune, June 21, 1885.