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latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side of the Yangtsze. It is surrounded by a crenelated stone wall in good repair, which is some five miles in circumference, pierced with nine gates. This wall was built in 1761, replacing an older one. The climate of Chungking is very depressing, perhaps the worst in China; the summers being hot and damp, the winters raw and chilly, with thick fogs from November to March. Spring and autumn can indeed hardly be said to exist. The ordinary rise of the river is about 70 feet; in the year 1871 the Chinese say it rose over one hundred feet, the water not being able to force its way fast enough through the gorges. On the left bank of the Kia-ling and facing Chungking, extending below the junction of the two rivers, is the walled city of Kiang-Peh-ting, formerly within the district of Li Min Fu, but now incorporated in Chungking Fu. These two cities, and the large villages in their immediate neighbourhood are estimated to contain a population of about 300,000.
The port was declared open to Foreign trade in March, 1891, but business did not actually commence until the 18th June, since which date a large and gradually increasing trade has been done both in imports and exports, carried in foreign chartered junks. The net value of the trade for 1892 was Tls. 9,245,737 as against Tls. 2,854,713 for the six months of 1891.
The Yangtsze is navigable for steamers from Ichang, not only to Chungking, but as far as Suchau-d, where the Min river joins the Yangtsze, but steamers are not allowed to ascend above Ichang.
DIRECTORY
AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION,
Süchow-fu
Rev. W. M. Upcraft
Geo. and Mrs. Warner
R. and Mrs. Wellwood
C. H. Finch, M.D., and Mrs. Finch
Rev. G. W. and Mrs. Hill
F. B. Malcolm, M.D.
C. H. and Mrs. Wicking
Rev. W. G. and Mrs. Silke Fred. Beaman
J. W. Ashby
Miss E. Inveen Miss B. G. Forbes
Rev. F. J. Bradshaw
Miss M. A. Gardelin
Miss M. M. Bliss
BIBLE CHRISTIAN MISSION, address, care of
China Inland Mission
堂餘耶
CHINA INLAND MISSION
S. P. and Mrs. Smith
T. G. Willett
Lewis Jones
F. B. Webb
Miss I. A. Ramsay (absent)
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
E. B. Vandor
司公除保川利
CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMPANY, Ld.
Archibald Little, resident manager
Agency
China Traders' Insurance Company
CONSULATE-FRANCE Consul-F. Hass
Rev. J. G. and Mrs. Vanstone (absent) **★ Ta Ying ling-shih ya-men
Rev. S. Pollard, Chao Tong-fu
Mrs. Thorne,
do. (absent)
Rev. F. Dymond, do.
Rev. W. Tremberth, Tong Ch'uan-fu
泰公商美
BURNETT & JENKINS, Merchants
J. H. Burnett
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-M. F. A. Fraser (absent) Acting Consul-E. H. Fraser
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner-F. Hirth Assistant J. A. Kerr
Tidesurveyor-W. Nelson Lovatt
T'waiters-J. McDowall, H.C.W.Court Chinese Clerk-Chow Kwae Kway
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