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tion-a description or even an enumeration of which we cannot undertake to give.
The manufactures of Shánghái are few in number, very limited in quantity, aud of no superior quality-if perhaps we except the products of the bamboo. Household furniture, clothing, ect., are manufactured, but not to any great extent.
The hwii kwin, 會館,
merous.
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Ship-building, and smiths and the rope manufactures connected therewith, are conspicuous, and at present driven with more spirit and enterprise than any other work we have seen in Shanghái. The junks are all small flat-bottomed vessels, built chiefly of pine timber, of very light construction and designed for inland navigation.
or "Houses of a-sembly, But neither the hwui-kwán, nor the kung-so, is properly exchange," as they have sometimes been called. They are indeed places of meeting for the transaction of business; but so far as we know, they are always, as houses of assembly, or places of meeting, open only to particular companies or bodies of men, each trade, and each commercial company, having its own place of meet- ing, into which the public and the stranger have no right to intrude. The suburbs of Shánghúi are built principally between the river and the walls, extending some distance beyond them, however, both to the north and to the south.
The Foreign Fuctories and residents. Not far from the north- east corner of the city, the Hwángpú makes a short bend: flowing down from the south and east to this point, it here turns and runs nearly due east. At the southern point of this bend, a small creek
branches off to the westward: this is the Yang-king-páng, # I iFc:
: near the other extreme of the beud, the Wúsung kiang comes in from the north or north-west, and is here called by foreign- ers the "Suchau creck." On this bend, bounded by the Yáng-king páng on the south, and by the Wúsung kiáng on the north, and ex- tending back from the river as far as may be required, are the con- sular grounds—the centre of a new world of influence, where, as if by magic, European houses, streets &c., have come into existence. Some thirty of these houses are already completed, and as many more, and among them a church, are in course of erection. The whole number of foreign residents is now more than one hundred; and every month adds to their number.
The value of real estate, in this neighborhood, in the eastern suburbs, and indeed in the whole city, has been greatly enhanced by the opening of this port, and the establishment of a European