The Chinese of all ranks, and in every place, received my books gladly, and listened with patience to what I had to say about the true God.—So that what from opportunities of attending to the object of my Mission among the Chinese—what from seasons of religious instruction to Dutch and English—what from intercourse with gentlemen of education and knowledge of the world—what from occasions of stating clearly the object of Missions, and of endeavouring to remove prejudices against them—and what from the view of a highly cultivated country, happy under an enlightened and liberal government, I have much reason to be satisfied with this journey …

BZZZT! the correction is wrong! That's a fathom. A mathom is, quite obvy, a metric_fathom, and rounded to the nearest full meter. Therefor, the unit is equal to exactly 2 meters.

The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes