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HANOI
PAGES, Mécanicien, Boulangerie, Rue des
Brodeurs
PERRIN, Boucherie, Comestibles, Épicerie
Rue Paul Bert
Loisy Perrin
PERRETTI, A. DE, ET L. TEYSSIER, Entre-
prises Generale, Rue du Lac
PHARMACIE BLANC, Rue Paul Bert
PICCOLINI, Armurier
PINAUD, Coiffeur
REYNAUD-BLANC, Druggists, Rue Paul Bert
J. Blanc, successeur
Simibaldo Gracias
ST. AMAND, Entrepreur, Rue du Lac
SCHNEIDER, E., ainé, Papetier, Libraire, Rue
Paul Bert
SCHNEIDER, F. H., Imprimerie typo-litho-
graphique, Rue du Coton
F. H. Schneider
R. A. Fontaine, fondé de pouvoirs F. Laurent, comptable F. Mainfroy
Sarger, chef d'atelier de typographie
Graux, Millet, Chalinet, Marçal
Souza, compositeurs-typographe Fourstein, chef d'atelier de lithogr. Guillet, imprimeur lithogr. Tisset, dessinateur
Isler, graveur
Succursale à Haiphong, Rue du Com-
merce
Schroeder, ALBERT, Merchant, Rue Paul
Bert
SCHROEDER ALBERT, Merchant and Con- tractor for Public Works, Quai de Phuxa
SIMON, J. L., Merchant, Quai de Phuxa
J. L. Simon (Paris)
A. Labeye, agent
SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME FRANCO-TONKINOISE,
Rue Paul Bert
Babin, gérant
Leterrey, comptable
VEZIN ET CIE, CH., Fabrique des Ciments de Portland, Artificiers, Chaux Hydrau- lique
VINCENOT, Tailleur, Rue Paul Bert
WUHRLIN, A., Distillateur Liquoriste,
Maison à Paris, Rue Lafayette, 11
C. Wuhrlin
HAIPHONG
This is the shipping port for Hanoi, Hai-duong, and Namdinh, the commercial centres of Tonkin. It is situated in lat. 20 deg. 51 min. N., and long. 106 deg. 42 min. E., on the river Cua Cam, which is connected by two or more channels or creeks with that great river connecting Yunnan with the Tonkin Gulf, called the Song-koi. The town of Haiphong is about sixteen and a half miles from the lighthouse. The light house at the entrance of the river, on the island of Hon-Do, is visible at a distance of about six miles. The entrance to the port is obstructed by two bars; the outer one sand, the inner one mud. Haiphong is accessible, however, by vessels drawing from 19 to 20 feet. There is plenty of water in the river. Vessels anchor about a quarter of a mile from the shore in from 40 to 60 feet of water abreast of a creek communicating with the Song-koi. The banks of the river are low and consist of alluvial mud, from which the present town has with great labour and expense been reclaimed.
Haiphong proper is situated on both sides of the creek above referred to, and is in the midst of an extensive rice swamp with low lying, swampy land all around it for miles, having in the distance the monotony relieved by rugged ranges of low limestone hills and beyond these to the northward, at a distance of some sixteen miles, is a range of mountains, the loftiest known as the Grand Summit being about 5,000 feet high. Most of the native buildings are wretchedly constructed of mud, bamboo, and matting, but a well built European town with broad boulevards has sprung up and is fast assuming the aspect of a prosperous city. The Hotel du Commerce is a large and handsome structure, its lofty mansard roof dominating every building in the town. There is small church attached to the Roman Catholic Mission, but it is a very ugly and in- adequate place, and it is in contemplation to build a church worthy of the town. A small dock and some fine wharves with extensive godowns, with some miles of Decau-