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Kowloon City
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The city of Kowloon
called in Chinese Kan lung
thing (MĚ toX) (九龍城)
The term
Shing (75X) is the ordinary
used for
signified
A
city by the Chinese.
It originally seems to
a
have
rampart surround-
a city
ing a space; but it is always applied to a surrounded by
by a sampail ad cities are
-
wall
L
all Chinese The Convention re-
fear to the retention of juris- "diction "Within the city of Kowloon", thus clearly show- ing that the
meant
walled
city is
Kowloon is situatia about
a quarter of
a mile from the
sea shou. It is enclosed by
stone wall
forming
built in 1847 1
a-s
nearly
as possibl
a parallelogram measuring You ft. by 400 pt. and unclosing
acres
ave
arce
of 62
The wall is bill of
graniti ashlar facing
is
15 ft in widit at the top and averages in height 13 ft. The wall
The wall has six
watch towers, at present
occupied as
family dwell.
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