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Kowloon City

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The city of Kowloon

called in Chinese Kan lung

thing (MĚ toX) (九龍城)

The term

Shing (75X) is the ordinary

used for

signified

A

city by the Chinese.

It originally seems to

a

have

rampart surround-

a city

ing a space; but it is always applied to a surrounded by

by a sampail ad cities are

-

wall

L

all Chinese The Convention re-

fear to the retention of juris- "diction "Within the city of Kowloon", thus clearly show- ing that the

meant

walled

city is

Kowloon is situatia about

a quarter of

a mile from the

sea shou. It is enclosed by

stone wall

forming

built in 1847 1

a-s

nearly

as possibl

a parallelogram measuring You ft. by 400 pt. and unclosing

acres

ave

arce

of 62

The wall is bill of

graniti ashlar facing

is

15 ft in widit at the top and averages in height 13 ft. The wall

The wall has six

watch towers, at present

occupied as

family dwell.

in qo