1868, “USURI”, in W. G. Blackie, editor, A Supplement to The Imperial Gazetteer; A General Dictionary of Geography, Physical, Political, Statistical, and Descriptive[1], London: Blackie and Son, →OCLC, page 215, column 2:
USURI, a river, E. Asia, forming part of the boundary between Chinese and Russian Manchooria, and after the Songari the largest affluent which the Amoor receives on its r. bank, has its source in the W. slope of the mountains which run N.N.E., parallel to the W. shore of the Sea of Japan.
1873 [1872 June 1], “SEAWEED AS FOOD”, in The Food Journal; A Review of Social and Sanitary Economy, and Monthly Record of Food and Public Health[2], volume III, London: J. M. Johnson & Sons, →OCLC, page 185:
SEAWEED AS FOOD—In an account of trade in North China the following occurs:—Among the imports maybe noticed seaweed from Russian Manchooria, furnishing employment for a considerable amount of tonnage in the summer months, and largely consumed in China as an article of food. It is gathered along the coast by Chinese and native dredgers, near Passiett, Port May, and Olga Bay, and forms almost the sole article of exchange for the piece goods, liquors, stores, and other articles of Chinese consumption in demand at those Russian settlements. The trade is conducted almost entirely by barter.
We may also mention the work of Capt. Onatsévich on the shores of Russian Manchooria (NATURE, vol. xv. p. 417), and the important cartographical work of M. Sidensner between the Obi and Jenissei rivers.
1898, “Amoor, Territory of”, in A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary of the World[4], New Revised edition, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 489, column 1:
Amoor, Territory of, a name applied to Russian Manchooria, or the region of Southeastern Siberia acquired from the Chinese and Japanese by the Russians since 1858. It is bounded on the N. by Siberia proper, on the E. by the Seas of Okhotsk and Japan, the coast being Russian as far S. as the river Toomen, which divides it from Corea (the island of Saghalin being now included) ; on the W. by Chinese Manchooria, the rivers Oosooree, Argoon, Soongaree, and Amoor forming (for the most part) the boundary; and on the N.W. by the government of Transbaikalia. Its area, 905,462 square miles, is over four times that of France. It is divided into the provinces of Amoor and Primorsk.
