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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 and on the importance of opening commercial intercourse with those countries, &c.

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]

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