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long with a width varying from half a-mile to a mile. The native town is on the eastern side of the harbour, and is about two miles long by about three-quarters of a mile in extreme width. The foreign settlement adjoins the native town on the south side. The chief mercantile houses are situated on the bund facing the harbour, behind which are a few streets running parallel with it, and there are a number of private residences on the hill side. There are English Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, two clubs, and a Masonic Lodge. The Belle Vue Hotel affords fair accommodation for visitors. The Nagasaki dock is capable of docking the largest steamers. Its dimensions are:- Length (inside caisson at top), 438 feet; length on blocks, 375 feet; breadth of entrance at top 89, and at bottom, 77 feet; depth of water on blocks at spring tides, 27 feet 6 inches, and at neap tides 22 feet. Attached to the dock are extensive Engine Works most completely equipped and fitted. These works were originally built by the Japanese Government, but they now belong, as does the dock, to the Mitsu Bishi Company. Waterworks have recently been completed. The reservoir holds 90,000,000 gallons, and there are three filter beds and a service reservoir. The climate of Nagasaki is mild and salubrious, but in summer it is hot during the day by reason of the position of the town, being in a hollow surrounded by hills.
After the opening of the port the trade for several years steadily developed, but it subsequently declined, owing to various causes, but chiefly perhaps on account of its gradual attraction to Yokohama. During the last seven years, however, there has been a steady improvement in the foreign trade, which has doubled itself in that period. The chief articles of import are cotton and woollen manufactures. The principal exports are coal, tea, camphor, rice, vegetable wax, tobacco, and dried fish. There are several very productive coal mines near Nagasaki, of which the Takashima mine was the most important, the production in 1890 being 279,890 tons, and that of the Nakonoshima mine 123,905 tons. The produce of the various Chikuzen mines in 1890 was estimated at 780,000 tons.
The value of the foreign import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1890 was $3,410,952, and that of the foreign export trade $4,314,391. Coal is the staple article of export, accounting for nearly half of the total export trade.
The population of Nagasaki in 1889 was 44,175. The number of foreign residents, as given in the Consular report for 1890, was 1,004, of whom 684 were Chinese, 100 English, and 320 other Europeans and Americans. A small foreign weekly paper entitled the Rising Sun is published in the port.
DIRECTORY
ADAMS & CO., M., Butchers and Compradores, BROWNE & Co., Merchants
M. Adama
G. Sutton
Army and NAVY INN
Charley
ARNOLD, C. A., Medical Practitioner
BELLE VUE HOTEL
A. Harmand, lessee
BOKDDINGHAUS, C. E., Merchant
Agencies
Kingsin Line of Steamers Bureau Veritas
German Lloyd (Fire) Insurance Co. Transatlantic Marine Insurance Co. Transatlantic Fire Insurance Co. Northern Assurance Company Hamburg and Bremen Underwriters Netherlands Fire Insurance Company
BRITANNIA HOTEL
H. Effluyer
H. St. J. Browne
W. Brent
W. K. Wilson
H. W. F. Norris H. Gardner
Agencies
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank'g Corpn. Bank of China, Japan and The Straits Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. Glen Line of Steamers Apcar Line of Steamers
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited North-China Insurance Company, Ld. New York Life Insurance Company Royal Insurance Office
CHINA AND JAPAN TRADING COMPANY, LD.
Edward Rogers, manager
F. G. Stone
C. F. Oberlein
E. W. H. Smith C. A. Welsh H. R. Mountefield D. H. Blake