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vígable for boats of light draught as far as Cheng-tu. From Chungking to this city the Yangteze is properly called the Min-kiang. The Kia-ling is a river of some importance, and a considerable traffic is done on it. Chungking, like most Chinese cities, though pleasingly and picturesquely situated, is dirty and repulsive upon close inspection.
DIRECTORY.
BRITISH CONSULAR RESIDENCY,
署事領英大
Ta ying-ling-shih-shu
Resident F. S. Bourne
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION.
Rev. F, D. Gamewell
CHINA INLAND MISSION.
D. B. Thompson
Rev. G. and Mrs. Nicoll
Miss Dowman
J. McMullan
(For Missionaries in Western Provinces
see Harkow)
CHEFOO.
Chefoo is situated on the northern side of the Shantung Promontory, in lat, 37 deg. 35 min. 56 sec. N., and long. 124 deg. 22 min, 33 sec. E. The designation by which it is generally known among foreigners is a misnomer, as the town of Yentai is really the port to which the name has come to be applied. Chefoo is a harbour in the locality of Yentai, but has no connection with it.
When the town was first occupied by the merchants of other nations, it was in the possession of a number of French troops, and no definite foreign settlement was then marked out. The consequence is that no plan has ever been adopted in the arrangement of the houses, and many of them have been in time surrounded by native buildings. The Chinese town is squalid and uninteresting. It is built on the shore, and possesses a fine sandy beach. The surrounding country is gently undulated for some little distance from the town, and beyond that the hills rise to a considerable height and lend to the landscape au interesting and varied aspect.
Chefoo of late years has become the resort of many foreign residents in China in consequence of its very salubrious climate. It is said to be the healthiest port in China. In winter, when the Pei-ho is frozen, merchandise and mails for Tientsin and some of the more northern cities are landed at this port and conveyed to their destina. tions overland. The harbour is commodious and possesses sufficient depth of water for vessels of considerable draught, but it is exposed to strong gales which prevail at certain seasons of the year. Chefoo is celebrated as the place where Sir Thomas Wade and the Grand Secretary Li Hung-chang concluded the
"Chefoo Convention" in September, 1876, and thus brought to a termination the negotiating which had been pending so long respecting the reparation demanded by the British Government for the murder of Mr. A. B. Margary in Yuunan. The population of Chefoo is estimated at 32,000.
The trade of Chefoo, like that of Newchwang, is principally in Beancake and Beans, of which large quantities are annually exported to the southern ports of China. In 1882, the not export of Bacak am junted to 1,349,221 piruls and of Beans to 147,181 picus, as against 1,252,321 picals of the former and 139,952 piculs of the latter in 1882. The quantity of Opium imported in 1883 amounted to 883 piculs as compared with 1,124 piculs in 1882, 1,759 piculs in 1881, and 2,402 picule in 1880. This import steadily declined for several years, owing partly to the increased cultivation of the poppy in Shantung and partly to the dreadful famines which have desolated the