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To Chuenshá the distance is 30 li, To the sea coast the distance is 50 l, To Nán hwái the distance is 72 lt, To Tsing pú the distance is 36 l, To Páushan the distance is 12 li. To Sungkiáng the distance is 90 lt, To Suchau the distance is 244 li, To Nanking the distance is 880 li, To Peking the distance is 2889 l,
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Like the rest of the Empire this district is cut up into numerous subdivisions; thus there are
Hiáng, or townships;
Páu, or tythings;
Tú or wards.
These divisions, and subdivisions are all named and numbered.
The townships are called Chứng jin, Ế A, and Kíu chứng,
, the first contain three, and the second nine Páu, or Tythings. The twelve are numbered, thus, Nos. 16, 18, 21, and so on up to 30. The names of the tythings and wards often indicate the nature of the places they designate. Thus ward No. 15, of the tything No. 25, is called Ching hwáng miáu, which is the name of the tem- ple dedicated to the god who presides over the city, standing upon that site. So in another case we find Tien chú táng tsien hau, "Front and rear of the Lord of Heaven's temple," which is the name of ward No. 22, in tything No. 26, situated some miles west- ward from this city.
There are also market towns, or villages at which there are re- gular markets, which are called chin, and shi. Among these, some thirty or forty in number, is the Lung hưá, the site of a pagoda, three or four miles up the river above Shánghái.
In the Statistical Work, published in the reign of Kiáking, allud- ed to above, there is a chart of the rivers, canals, creeks, etc. of this district, showing how completely the whole country is intersected
the púh tsun chih, AR, or eight inch chih, being equal to eight
inches of the Tsai,, chih, or Tailor's chih. The Hải kwán chih, 海關尺,
WR, (or custom-house chih) is call the kiú tsun,, 九寸
, or nine inch chih, being equal to nine inches of the Tsai or Tailors chih. Of the
Tsíi í chih there are two kinds, one three tenths longer than the other. The
La pán chih originated in the Sung dynasty. [N. B. Five kwán chih,
官尺:
TR. or official chih make a pú.