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Boats carrying from 200 to 300 piculs of teac an come from Tai-ping-hsien to Wuhu in the summer and autumn, but in the winter the creek is partially dry, and navigation rendered impossible. The silk districts of Nau-ling and King-hsien are situated within fifty miles of Wuhu. Besides the canals leading to Ning-kuoh-fu and Tai-ping- haien, there are two others communicating with Su-an and Tung-pó. The Su-an canal is navigable for small boats in summer for nearly one hundred miles, and passes through some silk producing country; while that leading to Tunz-pó can be traversed by native craft of considerable size, for about seventy miles. On the northern side of the Yangtsze a fine broad canal, navigable in summer for vessels drawing ten to twelve feet of water, connects Wubu with Lu-chow-fu, the chief mercantile depôt for central An-hwei.
It will be seer, from the above enumeration of the facilities for water carriage from Wuhu, that it is calculated to prove an emporium for commerce. It has indeed long been the seat of an extensive junk traffic, and is the only one of the new treaty ports which has so far at all fulfilled the anticipations formed of it. A very fair import trade has sprung up, and both that and the export trade are steadily growing. The Customs revenue is already about half that of Kiukiang. The total value of the trade passing through the Foreign Customs for the year 1877 was Tls. 1,586,682, of which amount Tls. 893,408 represented the foreign imports. 1,161 piculs of Opium were imported in 1877.
The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chinese cities possess, aud is tolerably paved. Its population is estimated at 40,000 inha- bitants. The anc! orage is good and resembles that of Chinkiang.
大領室府
Tai-ying-ling-sze-foo.
BRITISH CONSULATE.
Acting Consul―E. L. Oxenham
Constable-G. Perkins
DIRECTORY.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.
蕪湖粉關
Wu-hu-hsin.kwan.
Assistant in Charge-J. Lloyd E. Palm
Assistants C. C. Clarke, E. A. Deacon
Tide-surveyor and Harbour Master-J. H.
May
Examiner-W. J. Sayle
Tidewaiters-L. Le Breton, A. Lewis, E.
Felton
Linguist-Wang-kum-ping
CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NavigatiON COMPANY.
Manager-Chow Lan-sen Sub-Manager-Soon Cho Ching Clerk-Chan Yuk-ting
Hulks "Szechuen" and "Geo. Washing-
ton
MERCHANTS.
发 昌
An-chang.
Duff, Thos. W., merchant and commission
agent
沙遜
Sa-800n.
Sassoon, Sons & Co., D., merchants
R. E. Tõeg
萬年清
Wan-nin chung.
永顺
Yüng-shur.
Smith & Co., C., merchants and com-
mission agents
C. Smith
Wong, Brothers & Co., merchants and
commission agents
Wang-jü-hu
C. C. Goe
Y. B. Wung
MISSIONARY.
Rev. Pére J. Seckinger, Society of Jesus