Lord Elgin then paid an official visit to Japan, where he was well received and succeeded in negotiating the Treaty of yeddo, which was a decided advance on all previous arrangements with that country, and prepared the way for larger relations between it and England.
"Lord Elgin"
John George Bourinot
To descend to more recent instances, in 1702 the lofty walls of the outside and inside moats of the castle of yeddo were destroyed, tidal waves broke along the coast in the vicinity, and the road leading through the famous pass of Hakone, in the hills to the east of Fuji-yama was closed up by the alteration in the surface of the earth.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
But within a short time numerous lines of steamships, starting from San Francisco, Portland, Honolulu, and many other harbors yet nameless, will land travellers in Yokohama, Hakodadi, yeddo, Shanghai, Canton, and other emporiums of Asia.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud