It is a precious relic for its associations, and still more precious because the canton is made of thirteen stripes, blue and silver alternating.
One was that the stars which they had scattered irregularly over the blue canton would look better if they were arranged in some regular form, such as a circle or a star or in parallel rows.
When it was finally chosen, it proved to be red with a white canton or union cut by a red St. George's cross into four squares.
Rhode Island had also a white flag, but with a blue anchor instead of a beaver, and a blue canton with thirteen white stars.
Under strong pressure from British officials, Commissioner Yeh surrendered the crew, but refused all apology, whereuponCanton was bombarded.
In 1856, the Canton authorities seized the crew of a Chinese pirate which carried a British flag.
The thermometer at Canton has sometimes almost reached the point zero; and by the effect of reflection, ice has been found on the terraces of houses.
Hail is frequent and the hail-stones are extremely large in the Asiatic climate of Canton and Macao, while it is scarcely seen once in fifteen years at the Havannah.
The Swiss Alps extend, in the Grisons and in the Tyrol, to a breadth of 36 and 40 leagues, both in the meridians of the lake at Como, the canton of Appenzell, and in the meridian of Bassano and Tegernsee.
Macao is situated on the western shores of the estuary of the great Pearl River, sometimes called Canton River.
On my return from Canton and Macao, I walked down a long hall to my room and encountered several of the so-termed "boys," every one of whom smiled and greeted me.
Illustration: A five-story pagoda] There were larger shops in better locations in the city, and here we found the grass linen embroidered articles and the crape for which Canton is famous.
A thousand years and Canton is alluded to as a commercial city, with a special commissioner appointed by the Government to superintend foreign trade.
Canton seemed an unrelated place, a kind of a by-play.
The aristocracy of Canton is not one of wealth, but of intellectual honors; many of the Chinamen who are seen wearing horn-rimmed spectacles are either of a literary turn of mind or are attempting to pass as such.
Seen from the city wall or any very high point, Canton seems a city of roofs, with scarcely an opening and not a vestige of green.
They showed an inclination to canton themselves in Normandy, and abandon the other French provinces to the hazards and sufferings of a desultory war.
The inhabitants of a canton which was close to the city, and was called Franchemont, resolved to make a desperate effort, and go and fall suddenly upon the very spot where the two princes were quartered.
The statement that the canton or tribe was governed by its prince with the co-operation of the council, etc.
Quiquerez, a Swiss engineer, discovered in thecanton of Berne the remains of a number of side-hill furnaces for smelting iron ore; together with tools, fragments of iron and charcoal.
He had bought a Chinese ship at Cantonwhich seemed in good condition, in order to continue his voyage to Camboxa.
Therefore he immediately sent to Canton to ask permission of the laytao to buy a ship in which to continue his journey.
But it profited them little, because the laytao of Canton ordered Don Luis and his men to enter the harbor of Pinal, where the other Castilians were, where they would be given whatever they needed.
They brought every influence to bear on the laytao, but the Portuguese in Canton continually opposed them by every means.
A port at Canton has been opened to the Spaniards for trade; and efforts are being made to improve this opportunity.
Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin), a city and canton of Switzerland, situated at the extreme south-west corner both of the country and of the Lake of Geneva or Lake Leman.
The cantonsends 2 members (elected by a popular vote) to the Federal Standerath, and 7 to the Federal Nationalrath.
Frutigen in the Swiss canton of Bern to Leukerbad in the Swiss canton of the Valais.
The Rhone flows through it from east to west, and then along its south-west edge, the total length of the river in or within the canton being about 13 m.
The canton is, save Zug, the smallest in the Swiss Confederation, while the city, long the most populous in the land, is now surpassed by Zurich and by Basel.
The broad-gauge railways in the canton have a length of 18-3/4 m.
The one province of Kwang-Tung, in which Canton is situated.
By means of this canal an almost entire water connection between Cantonand Peking is made, and through the two great rivers which it crosses goods can be carried inland.
The following is one of these notices:-- "To allow the barbarians to settle atCanton was a mistake.
In Canton the converts to Catholicism are very numerous; those in Macao are in an inexpugnable fortress.
In 1841 a force under Sir Hugh (afterwards Lord) Gough surrounded Canton and prepared to capture it.
The fares are not exorbitant—from Hong Kong to Macao three dollars, to Canton five, each way; between Macao andCanton three.
On the other three sides Canton is surrounded by a ditch, which is filled by the rising tide.
The Europeans in Canton sent their families in haste to Hong Kong and Macao; wealthy Chinamen transferred their money to the banks in the former place; gunboats were hurried up; and the garrison of our island colony stood ready.
Canton is famous for its ivory carvers and the artists in the beautiful feather work, the making of which seems to be confined to this city.
The men were evidently merely coolies, hurriedly impressed by the mandarins when called upon by the Viceroy of Canton to produce the troops for whom they regularly drew pay.
Canton and the South contains, besides the anti‐foreign party, a number of reformers who realise that China must stand in line with modern civilisation.
Along the river bank near Canton criminals were exposed in cages, through the top of which their heads protruded in such a fashion that the weight of the body was supported only by the chin and neck.
The outbreak of hostilities was followed by the pillaging and destruction of the “factories” of the foreign merchants in Canton by an infuriated mob in the December of that year.
Its proximity to Hong Kong and the constant intercourse with foreigners have sharpened their trading faculties, and there are few smarter business men than the Canton shopkeeper.
The following is a summary of their practice:-- The Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud.
During that time he collected one thousand five hundred and fifty beavers, besides other peltries, worth in the Canton market two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, which cost him in his objects of trade only thirty-five pounds.