Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "南京条约" in Chinese language version.
You have obtained the Cession of Hong Kong, a barren island with hardly a house upon it; and even this Cession as it is called, seems to me, from the conditions with which it is clogged, not to be a cession of the Sovereignty of the Island, which could only be made by the signature of the Emperor, but to be a permission to us to make a Settlement there, upon the same footing on which the Portuguese have an establishment at Macao.Now it seems obvious that Hong Kong will not be the Mart of Trade,any more than Macao is so; that the Trade will still continue at Canton ;and unless you shall have obtained in your further Negotiations, all the securities which we demanded for our Residents in China, matters will remain practically just as they have been.
岳飞确实因与高宗赵构意见不合而多次上书请求辞去兵柄，如在绍兴九年的二、三月间，他在反对和议无效之后，曾愤然上书请求解除军职，奏书云：‘比者修盟漠北，割地河南，既不复于用兵，且无嫌于避事。伏望陛下俯照诚悃，曲赐矜从，令臣解罢兵务，退处林泉，以歌咏陛下圣德，为太平之散民，臣不胜幸甚。’
北宋的外交以維持皇帝地位及疆土完整為主要目的，不惜用歲幣來代替割地。南宋因對金的實力不夠，甚至皇帝的地位岌岌可危，所以如不能維持土地，就割地和贈送歲幣，而盡力維持皇帝的名分。
英文版記述在Nanking，中文版記述在江寧
英文版記述在Nanking，中文版記述在江寧
桓溫北伐時，前燕允諾割虎牢以西之地向前秦求援，桓溫敗退後，前秦即依約求取割地，至乃攻陷鄴城，消滅前燕
南宋割出唐、邓二州，以邓州西南、南四十里为界。但两国实际边界并非完全是和议规定的边界，具体执行边界交割时
岳飞确实因与高宗赵构意见不合而多次上书请求辞去兵柄，如在绍兴九年的二、三月间，他在反对和议无效之后，曾愤然上书请求解除军职，奏书云：‘比者修盟漠北，割地河南，既不复于用兵，且无嫌于避事。伏望陛下俯照诚悃，曲赐矜从，令臣解罢兵务，退处林泉，以歌咏陛下圣德，为太平之散民，臣不胜幸甚。’
北宋的外交以維持皇帝地位及疆土完整為主要目的，不惜用歲幣來代替割地。南宋因對金的實力不夠，甚至皇帝的地位岌岌可危，所以如不能維持土地，就割地和贈送歲幣，而盡力維持皇帝的名分。
Robert Montgomery Martin, an early Colonial Treasurer, arriving in 1844, dismissed it almost at once as small, barren, unhealthy and valueless
