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on the Han-kang, the rising town of Mapu, which lies on the main road to Hanyang (Söul) some 75 li distant from the port (Chemulpo), or 30 li from Söul. There are two steamship agencies here, one British, the other Japanese; two Japanese Banks; two European and one American firms, as well as some 400 Japanese merchants and traders. The whole of the land formimg the Japanese Settlement at Chemulpo was sold publicly early in 1884; and the first land sales in the general Foreign Settlement took place on the 7th November of the same year. There is a Municipal Council at Chemulpo composed of the Foreign Consuls, one Corean official, and three represen- tatives of the landholders. The Council employs two foreign and four Chinese police constables. The approaches to the river (Salée) are now well surveyed, and the latest British Admiralty charts are quite reliable. The river itself has been carefully surveyed by the (foreign) Harbour Department of the Royal Corean Customs Service, and the result of the surveys will be published. The outer anchorage is accessible to ships of all sizes, and the inner one to coasting vessels and steamers ordinarily employed in the local trade. The river is navigable for vessels not drawing over 10 feet up to Mapu; but seeing that at certain seasons there are a few places where the fall in the river is very considerable, owing to the existence of sand banks, it is desirable that river steamers, intended to run regularly, should not draw over six feet. An overland telegraph line from China to this port and the city of Seoul has been constructed, and was opened to traffic on the 28th November, 1885.
The climate is healthy and may be compared to that of Chefoo. 29.87 was the mean reading of the barometer in the summer months of 1884, and 30.14 in the winter. The thermometer ranged from 3 deg. to 60 deg. Fahr. during the winter, the average minimum being 18 deg. and maximum 48 deg., and during the summer from 50 deg. to 89 deg., the averages being 48 deg. minimum and 77 deg. maximum.
The port was opened to Japanese trade on the 1st January, 1883, and to foreign trade on the 16th June of the same year. The first Customs duties were collected in July, 1883, but the Japanese did not pay dues and duties until the 3rd November, 1883.
DIRECTORY.
Consulates.
BRITISH.
E. H. Parker, vice-consul
W. L. Hopkins, constable
JAPANESE.
Tanichi Kobayashi, consul (absent)
Hisumidzu Saburo, acting consul and as-
sistant judge
N. Tani, Chinese secretary
K. Sagawa, secretary
K. Okuyama, paymaster
K. Takawo, Corean secretary Sagama Kizokata, pay.naster N. Ishiyama, postmaster J. Shiwokawa, clerk of court
S. Azmui, clerk auc asst. paymaster
Medical Office.
Dr. Tauakeo, military attaché
K. Makiyawa, assistant T. Yoshi watsu, paymaster
CHINESE.
Li Nai Yung, consul
Woo Chong Yen, foreign secretary Yui Paw Lin, Japanese interpreter
Chuan Shing To, Corean interpreter
關海國鮮朝大
ROYAL CUSTOMS.
Alfred B. Stripling, commissioner
E. Laporte, assistant
C. Duncan (act. statistical sec.), assistant
Woo Li Tang,
C. L. Chow,
S. K. Nakabayashi,
Hong-u-kuan, Corean
do.
do.
do.
do.
Capt. F. W. Schulze, harbour master
F. H. Mörsel, boat officer
F. R. Borioni, examiner
A. Ladage, acting do.
A. Seredin-Sabatin, H. G. Glanville, C.
A. Welch, tide waiters