Directory_and_Chronicle_1871 — Page 667

EMPIRE OF CHINA.

Census and Statistical Returns.

Topography.

Staple Productions.

11

GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL.

Chih-li,.

Shan-tung,

Nan-chang-foo..| 30,426,999

Westward very flat, sloping towards the sea, sterile. Millet, ginseng, tobacco, coal, saltpetre. Mountainous, a bracing climate, bold and good Corn, drugs, wine and skins.

Very low and fertile, climate good.

Silk, wine, iron, salt, marble, musk. The garden of China; rhubarb, musk, indigo. Medical herbs, cotton, porcelain, gold, tin, lead, salt.

Romantic scenery, and fertile on the bank of the Varnish, green tea, silk, rice, millet.

Yang-tsze.

Sterile and hilly; climate healthy.

Shan-si,

Honan,...

Kang-800,-

Pekin..... Tze-nan-foo

Tae-yuen-foo.... 14,004,210 Kae-fung-foo

27,990,871

473

28,958,764

515

harbours.

253

Very mountainous, and sterile and woody.

...

Nankin

23,037,171

37,843,501

353

Flat, very fertile, climate agreeable.

774

Gan-hwuy....

............. Gan-king-foo...| 34,168,059

Kiang-si,.

Foo-kien,.

421

Foo-chow-foo... 14,777,410

276

Che-kiang,

Hang-chow-foo 26,256,784 !

671

Hoo-pih,

Woo-chang-foo. 37,370,098

Hu-nan,

Chang-cha-foo.. 18,652,507

Shen-se,

Kan-suh,..

Se-gan-foo. 10,207,256 Lan-chow-foo... 15,193,135 Ching-tow-foo... 21,435,678

Sze-chuen,..

Kwang-tung.....100 (Canton)} 19,147,030

Kwang-si,

Yun-nan,.

Kwei-choo,

foo

Kwe-lin-foo.........

317

164

128

Coarse cloths, hemp, porcelain, drugs.

Very mountainous, good harbours, fertile where Black tea, camphor, sugar, indigo, wood, to- capable of cultivation.

On the sea coast very hilly, yet fertile.

Well watered, numerous lakes and rivers. Slightly elevated and fertile, a good climate. Plains and mountains-cold and barren. Mountainous, fertile fields, and sandy deserts. Bold coast, good harbors, fertile, fine climate.

214 Excellent harbours, fertile soil, climate good.

bacco.

Silk, cotton, paper, wines, and Lung-tsing- cha (a costly tea.)

Tea, paper, rice, rhubarb, musk, tobacco. Gold, silver, quicksilver, tin, drugs, and hemp. Woollens, iron, copper, drugs, furs, millet. Gold, quicksilver, musk, tobacco.

Copper, iron, tin, opium, rhubarb, rice, salt, drugs.

Rice, silk, tea, sugar, fruits, iron.

Fruit, rice, spices, iron, lead, sugar.

Bold mountains, fertile valleys, large forests. Excessively mountainous, wild, bleak, with jungle. Rich in metals, rice, musk.

7,313,895

93

Yun-nan-foo

5,561,320

51

Kwei-yang-foo

5,288,219

82

Wild and mountainous, intersected by rivers.

Total,...... 367,632,

283

Do.

tobacco, drugs.

Inhabitants

Province.

Provincial

Capital.

Population. per Square Mile.

343