Tag: Landscape

Amoy, Harbour, Gulangy, John Thomson, Xiamen, China, Port

Amoy town and harbour seen from Kalangsu (Gulangyu) Island in 1874. Fuh-kien (Fukien), China.

An old bridge in Chao-Chow-Fu, in Guangdong Province, Southern China.

Chao-Chow-Fu, John Thomson, Guangji Bridge, Kwangtung, China,

Guangji Bridge (Chaozhou). Kwangtung province, China around 1870. Illustrations of China and its people by John Thomson.

Chinese Pagoda, Kwangtung Province, on the right bank of the Han river.

9/25/19

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John Thomson, Chinese, Pagoda, Guangdong, 廣東省

The one shown here stands on the right bank of the Han river, near Chao-chow-fu, and, like all the best examples of such edifices, the whole ground structure up to the first story is composed of stone.

Macao in 1834. The settlement of Chinese, British and Portuguese traders.

9/21/19

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The occupation of Macao by a grant from the head of the celestial empire to the Portuguese, as a reward for their services against the pirates infesting the islands at the mouth of the Canton river, took place on or about the year 1586.

Pilgrimages and the sacred hills of Buddhism in China.

9/18/19

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John Thomson , Yuen-fu, Monastery, Cave, Fukien province, China,

The main source of the popularity and vitality of ordinary religious pilgrimages in all parts of the world seems to be this, -that they are among the few mundane activities in which keen physical and mental enjoyment may coexist with an exhilarating sense of religious fulfillment.

Port Bathy and Capital of Ithaca. The Neritos of Homer.

8/14/19

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This is the port which is exhibited in the present view, and the lofty mountain beyond its entrance is the Neritos of Homer. Views in Greece by Edward Dodwell. London, 1821.