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southern An-hwei, filty miles distant. Another canal runs inland for over eight miles in a south-westerly direction to Taiping-hsien, an extensive tea district. This canal, which is only navigable in the summer, passes through Nan-ling and King- hsien, where the cultivation of silk is carried on and may some day be of importance. Boats carrying from 200 to 300 piculs of tea can 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 Nan-ling and King-bsien are situated within fifty miles of Wuhu. Besides the canals leading to Ning-kuoh-fu and Tai-ping- hsien, 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 Tung-pó can be traversed by native crat 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 Wuhu with Lü-chow-fu, the chief mercantile depôt for central An-hwei,
It will be seer, from the above enumeration of the facilities for water carriage It has indeed from Wuhu, that it is calculated to prove an emporium fcr commerce. 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 total net value of the foreign imports for the year 1879 was Tls. 2,372,594, compared with Tls. 1,925,075 in 1878. 3,141 piculs of Opium were imported in 1879, as compared with 2,380 piculs in 1878. The total revenue for 1879 was Tls. 34,824 as against Tls. 31,421 in 1878.
The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chinese eities possess, aud is tolerably paved. Its population is estimated at 40,000 inha bitants. The anchorage is good and resembles that of Chinkiang.
DIRECTORY.
大英領事
Tai-yig-ling-sze-foo.
BRITISH Consulate.
Beting Consul-T. L. Bullock
Constable-G. Perkins
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.
蕪湖關
Wu-hu-hsin-kwan,
Conmissioner-J. Lloyd E. Palm
Assistants—C. C. Clarke, A. S. Deane
Tile-surveyor and Harbour Master-J.
Armour
Medical Officer-A. Sharp Deane, L.K. &
Q.C.P.I., L R.C.S.I. & L.M. Ex iminer-W. Stebbi s
Tidewaiters-J. G. Rylander, A. Lewis, E
Felton
Linguist Chung An
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY.
Manager-Chu Lui Wan (acting) Hulk-keeper-Out U-won
Clerk Chan Yuk-ting
Hulks "Szechuen" and "Geo. Washing-
ton'
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MERCHANTS.
都易
Tu-e.
Sassoon, Sons & Co., D., merchants
S. J. Solomon
S. S. Benjamin
MISSIONARY.
Rev. Pére J. Seckinger, Sceiety of Jesus
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