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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 population of Chungking itself is
109,100.
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 trade has been done both in imports and exports, carried in foreign chartered junks. The net value of the trade for 1893 was Tls. 8,740,896 as against Tls. 9,245,737 in 1892.
The Yangtsze is navigable for steamers from Ichang, not only to Chungking, but as far as Suchau-fu, where the Min river joins the Yangtsze, but steamers are not allowed to ascend above Ichang.
DIRECTORY
AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION, BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
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: Tel. Ad. Inland
Rev. S. and Mrs. Pollard, Chao T'ong-fu
Rev. F. J. and Mrs. Dymond, do.
Miss E. A. Bailey,
do.
Rev. W. Tremberth, Tong Ch'uan-f
Mrs. Thorne
Miss Dunn
E. J. Piper
泰公商美
BURNETT & JENKINS, Merchants
J. H. Burnett
Agency
Jardine, Matheson & Co.
堂麻耶
CHINA INLAND MISSION: Tel. Ad. Inland
T. Gear Willett
Lewis Jones
F. B. Webb
司公險保川利
CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMPANY, LD.
Archibald Little, resident manager
Agency
China Traders' Insurance Company
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
E. B. Varden
CONSULATE -FRANCE
Consul-F. Haas (absent)
門衙事領英大
* Ta Ying ling-shih ya-men
CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN
Acting Consul-J. N. Tratman
關慶重 Chung-ch'ing Kuan
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner-F. Hirth
Assistants-J. A. Kerr, A. G. H. Car-
ruthers
Tidesurveyor-W. Stebbins
Tidewaiters--E. C. A. Deichen, J.
McDowall