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house hill in line with the girst cone.
The Joss house point is steep
to, and vessels will find good shelter under the fort.
The river is staked across at the entrance, under the Joss-house hill, and there are sunker junks on each side of the opening through them. (This was in 1843.)
Ningpois 111⁄2 miles from Chinhii by the river, which is nearly straght, the reaches all lying to the southward of west, except one which is short. There are no dangers; the depth in mid-chan- nel varies from 5 to 24 fathomis. Vessels therefore drawing more than 13 feet should wait for half flood. The average width of the river is two cables.
At the city, the river separates into two branches, one taking a northwest, the other a S. by W. direction. The latter is barely a cable wide, and is crossed by a bridge of boats one quarter of a mile above the junction. A spit extends from each point at the entrance to the former, and has a depth of from 24 to 6 fathoms.
NINGPO FU OR the Department of Ningpo, is 3640 1⁄2 from Peking; and the city is in lat. 29° 55′ 12′′ N. lòng. 121° 22′ E. Having a population estimated at 300,000.
The following notices were written by the Rev. W. C. Milne for the Chi- nese Repository, to which the reader is referred for a full account of the city.
City of Ningpo.
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The distance between the harbor of Tingħái and the port of Ningpo, is calculated by the natives to be 180 lí, or 54 miles. The rock, inserted' in English charts under the name of Just-in-the-way,' (in the Chinese maps called Hwáng niú tsián, "the tawny ox rock,') is reckoned' the half way mark between Tinghái and Chinhái, while the latter lies at the mouth of the river, 60 li, or 18 miles distant from Ningpo, the capital city of the department of the same name.
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The fork of the river of Ningpo is called the mouth of three rivers,' from the fact that, at this point, there is the confluence of three streams. To the northwest of the city, there is a large stream running down through the districts of Yüyáu and Tsz'ki, which is called the Yau river, or the Shun river, or the river of Tsz'kí. To the east, there is another streamh, known under the name of the Yuug river, which name it retains above the city of Ningpo only the short distance of 35 li, when it branches ofl' in one line to the southwest, under the name of Ying river, and in another line to the southeast towards Funghwá, borrowing its name from the same district. There, where the Ying river unites with the Funghwa river, it is occasion-