Research Catalog

Title

Memoir, geographical, political, and commercial, on the present state, productive resources, and capabilities for commerce, of Siberia, Manchuria, and the Asiatic Islands of the Northern Pacific Ocean [electronic resource] : and on the importance of opening commercial intercourse with those countries, &c. / addressed to his excellency, James K. Polk, President of the United States, by Aaron H. Palmer.

Author

Palmer, Aaron Haight, approximately 1782-

Publication

[Washington, D.C.] : Tippin & Streeper, printers, [1848]

Details

Additional Authors

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Library.

Description

1 online resource (76, [4] p., [2] fold. leaves of plates) : maps.

Series Statement

• Miscellaneous / 30th Congress, 1st session. Senate ; no. 80
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

• Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 30th Congress, 1st session, no. 80.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Subject

• Chinese > California
• Foreign workers, Chinese > California
• Railroads > West (U.S.) > Early works to 1850
• Canals, Interoceanic
• United States > Foreign economic relations
• Siberia (Russia) > Foreign economic relations
• Manchuria (China) > Foreign economic relations
• Aleutian Islands (Alaska)

Note

• Caption title.
• "March 8, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed."
• Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

Contents

1. Siberia, its valuable products and rich gold mines -- 2. Russian overland trade with China at Kiakta, &c. -- 3. Manchuria and the river Amur, &c. -- 4. Island of Tarakay, or Saghalien -- 5. Russian and Japanese Kurile Islands, &c. -- 6. Steam communication with China -- 7. Special mission to the East -- 8. Policy of encouraging immigration of Chinese agricultural laborers to California. Railroad from the Mississippi to the bay of San Francisco -- 9. Ship canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific -- Prospectus: The unknown countries of the East.

OCLC

• 875133832
• NCCO2011381

Author

Palmer, Aaron Haight, approximately 1782-

Title

Memoir, geographical, political, and commercial, on the present state, productive resources, and capabilities for commerce, of Siberia, Manchuria, and the Asiatic Islands of the Northern Pacific Ocean [electronic resource] : and on the importance of opening commercial intercourse with those countries, &c. / addressed to his excellency, James K. Polk, President of the United States, by Aaron H. Palmer.

Imprint

[Washington, D.C.] : Tippin & Streeper, printers, [1848]

Series

Miscellaneous / 30th Congress, 1st session. Senate ; no. 80

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 30th Congress, 1st session, no. 80.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

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Added Author

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Library.