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. / addressed to his excellency, James K. Polk, President of the United States, by Aaron H. Palmer.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Palmer, Aaron Haight, approximately 1782-

Contributor:

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

Series:

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

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

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

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--California.

Chinese.

Foreign workers, Chinese--California.

Foreign workers, Chinese.

Railroads--West (U.S.)--Early works to 1850.

Railroads.

Canals, Interoceanic.

United States--Foreign economic relations.

United States.

Siberia (Russia)--Foreign economic relations.

Siberia (Russia).

Manchuria (China)--Foreign economic relations.

Manchuria (China).

Aleutian Islands (Alaska).

Physical Description:

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

Other 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

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Notes:

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.

OCLC:

875133832