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HAI DUONG.
HANOIHAIPHONG.
Vice Resident of France-A. Aumoitte Clerk of Residency-Marsac
Receiver, Posts and Telegraphs-Pelletier Director of Boys' School-Dr. Uyen Lieutenant Commandant la Milice-Ca-
buche
Adjudant-Lebarbier
Conducteur de Travaux-M. Crapoix Lieutenant Colonel, Deuxième Brigade-
Pyot
Nicolas & Co., merchants
HUNG HOA.
Vice-Resident of France--Pelletier, acting Chef de Bataillon, Première Brigade-
Berçand
MUONG.
Vice-Resident of France J. E. Moulier Clerk of Residency-J. C. Hauberdon Sous-Lieutenant Commandant la Milice-
Laune Adjudant-Mouchet
DAP CAU.
Général, Commandant Deuxième Brigade
Mensier
Officier d'Ordonnance-Millard, lieut. Major de Brigade-Picquart, capitaine Lieutenant-Colonel, Infanterie-Pyot Capitaine, Artillerie-Roubeau, (Ticau) Capitaine, Genie Charpentier
LANG-SON.
Vice-Resident of France-L. Nény, acting Paymaster of the Treasury-N. F. De-
laplace
Chef de Bataillon, Deuxième Brigade-
Servièr
CAO BANG.
Vice-Resident of France-A. Servière,
acting
NINHBINH.
Vice Resident of France---Trémoulet Chancelier-Adamolle
Postmaster-Grimaud
Director of Boys' School-Dr. Tran Conducteur de Travaux-8. Hirano
Reyes, merchant
QUANGYEN.
Vice Resident of France-R. Radiguet Chancelier-F. Hauser Adjudant-Nasset
PHULANG THUONG.
Payeur Adjoint de Trésorerie C. E. N.
Boucher
Lieutenant Colonel, Deuxième Brigade-
Tadieu
Leroy & Cahors, merchants and agents Service Subventionné des Correspon- dances Fluviales du Tonkin Renucci, representative
HAIPHONG.
This is the shipping port for Hanoi, Hai-Dzuong, and Namdinh, the commercial centres of Tonquin. It is situated in lat. 20 deg. 51 min. N., and long. 106 deg. 42 min. E., on the river Cua Cam, which is connected by two or more channels or creeks with that great river connecting Yunnan with the Tonquin Gulf, called the Song-koi. The town of Haiphong is about sixteen and a half miles from the light- house. The lighthouse at the entrance of the river, on the island of Hon-Dau, is visible at a distance of about six miles. The entrance to the port is obstructed by two bars; the outer one sand, the inner one mud. Haiphong is accessible, however, by vessels drawing from 19 to 20 feet. There is plenty of water in the river. Vessels anchor about a quarter of a mile from the shore in from 40 to 60 feet of water abreast of a creek communicating with the Song-koi. The banks of the river are low and consist of alluvial mud, from which the French Settlement and the town have with great labour and expense been reclaimed.
Haiphong proper is situated on both sides of the creek above referred to, and is in the midst of an extensive rice swamp with low lying, swampy land all around it for miles, having in the distance the monotony relieved by rugged ranges of low hills and beyond these to the northward, at a distance of some twenty miles, is a range of mountains. The streets are to a great extent as yet in an embryotic state, but are broad and well laid out with a view to the wants of a rapidly increasing town, and already show considerable improvement on their pristine state, most of them having been metalled and paved recently by the French