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Topography of Krangsi
XII. # Kánchau fú; or the
Department of Kánchau, has nine districts.
JULY.
Its chief town is in lat. 25° 52′ 48′′ N., and long. 1° 40′ 54′′ W.
of Peking, and 114° 14′ 06′′ E. of Greenwich.
A'nyuen,
I贛縣 Kán Nice,
2
Sinfung,
6
7 長寧 Chángning,
艾長興雩
寧國都
3 定南廳 Tingnán ting, 8 興國 Hingkwóh,
4
Lungnán,
5 = = Hwuicháng,
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XIII.
9 零都 Yiitú.
Nán-án fú; or the
Department of Náu-án, has four districts.
Its chief city is in lat. 25° 30′ N., and long. 2° 28′ 38′′ W of Pe-
king, and 113° 56′ 22′′ E. of Greenwich.
1大庾 Taiyi,
2
Nánkáng,
XIV.
瑞金 Suikin,
3
4
Shángyú, Tsungí.
Ningtú chau, or the
Department of Ningtú, has two districts.
2石城 Shiching.
Both of the British embassies traveled through this province—that of Macartney entered it from Chekiáng on the east; the other, under lord Amherst, entered it by the Yángtsz' kiáng; both crossed the lake, and then proceeded by the same route to Canton. If the pre- sent British expedition should extend its operations on the Great river, and on the lake and its chief tributary, the Kán, the security of the Chinese on this great thoroughfare will be sadly interrupted. The advanced squadron on the Kán could come, with small craft and steamers, within three hundred miles of the factories at Canton. Westward, it might pass through Húkwáng and Sz'chuen, into Yunuán,—and all this it could effect in the course of two or three weeks. Mr. Davis, speaking of his trip up the Great river, says, Here, after little less than a month's protracted, but not tedious journey, we quitted the magnificent Yángtsz' kiáng, nearly four hun- dred miles from its mouth, but still two thousand miles short of its source! It is upwards of fificen times longer than the river Thames, and bears about the same proportion to it, that the territory of Chma