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at and near the city. Few cities in China are more strikingly situated; none can surpass it for uncleanliness. The port is the centre of a fairly rich country. Be- sides the common productions of the great plain of Hupeh, the cultivation of the tungtsze tree, from which the tung oil is expressed, begins on the hills near Ichang and extends westward into Szechuen. Opium is grown in considerable quantities in the district. Ichang is conveniently situated as a mart for the tea districts of Hoh-fung- chow, the produce of which might, it is thought, be made suitable for foreign use. It was generally supposed that, as Ichang is situated at the head of steamer navigation on the Yangtsze and occupies a good position for trade, the port would speedily become an im- portant commercial centre. For the first three years these anticipations appeared little likely to be realised: the port cut a miserable figure the first year of its existence as a treaty port. Later returns show, however, that Ichang is becoming a con- siderable distributing centre, and its inward transit trade is now only second to that of Hankow. The total value of the trade for 1885 amounted to Tls. 3,077,166 as compared with Tls. 2,079,732 in 1884, Tls. 2,550,648 in 1883, Tls. 1,674,341 in 1882, Tls. 1,523,005 in 1881, and Tls. 2,093,780 in 1880. No foreign Opium has been im- ported at this port for the last two or three years, the native drug being generally used, and small quantities of Szechuen Opium being exported. The estimated popu- ation of the port is 34,000,
Consulates.
GREAT BRITAIN.
DIRECTORY.
*** Ta Ying ling-shih. Consul-Wm. Gregory
#E* Ta-me-kwoh ya-men.
UNITED STATES.
Consul-B. J. Franklin, residing at Hau-
kow
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.
HET I-chang-kwan, Acting Commissioner-F. A. Morgan Assistant and Medical Officer-Aug. Henry,
M.A., L.R.C.P. Assistant Examiner-
Tidewaiters-S. J. Grainger, H. C. Hewett Chinese Clerk-Ho A-che
CHINA MERCHANTS' S. N. Co. Wu Chok Mo, shipping agent
Missionaries.
ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Rev. George Cockburn, M.A., and Mrs.
Cockburn (absent)
Rev. Andrew Dowsley, B.A., Mrs. Dowsley
Tien-choo-tang.
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION. Right Rev. Fr. Alexis M. Filippi, Bishop
tit. of Paneale and Vicar Apost. of Southern Hupeh (Kiu tcheou) Rev. Fr. Giovanni Franzoni do. Rev. Fr. Benjamin Christiaens Rev. Fr. Gabriel van Gestel Rev. Br. Bonif. Timmer Rev. Fr. Laurentius Fuchs Rev. Fr. Odoric Timmer
CHUNGKING.
E.,
Chungking, one of the most important places in the large inland province of Szechuen, is situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 50 sec. N., and long. 107 deg. 2 min. and occupies a rocky peninsula at the junction of the river Kia-ling-kiang with the Upper Yangtsze, some 1,250 miles from the mouth of that great river. It is surrounded
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