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DIPLOMATIC, PISCATORY, AND OCEANIC.

-BY

A FISHER IN SMALL STREAMS.

SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

PUBLIC

PHILADELPHIA:

C. SHERMAN, PRINTER,

19 ST. JAMES STREET.

1844.

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TILDIN OU DATION:

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844,

BY C. SHERMAN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of

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HIS MOST CELESTIAL MAJESTY KIANG-FOO,

EMPEROR OF CHINA,

AND BROTHER TO THE SUN AND MOON.

DEEPLY sensible of the favours it has pleased your . Celestial Majesty at divers and sundry times to bestow, and grateful for the distinguished facilities afforded me in the early publication of some of your mighty proclamations with all respect, I dedicate the following pages to your Imperial Majesty.

I do so, with a belief, that your Serenity will not only be amused by them at your autumnal palace of Yuenmin-Yuen, upon the banks of the sparkling Taie-ho; but that they will give your Majesty some insight into the mysteries of barbaric diplomacy, which, it has pleased your Majesty privately, to inform me, owing to some late incidents, you were anxious to comprehend. Amongst so many sovereigns, to be selected by your Imperial Majesty as worthy of your confidence, I esteem a most signal mark of favour; and with no disposition to overrate my literary effusions, yet I feel confident your Majesty will derive quite as much instruction, if not more, than any other reader from my little volume.

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