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Ningpo is built on a plain, which stretches away to a considerable distance on either side. It is a walled city, the walls enclosing a space of some five miles in cir- cumference. The walls are built of brick, and are about twenty-five feet high. They are fifteen feet wide at the summit, and twenty-two at the base. Access is obtained to the town by six gates. A large moat commences at the north gate and runs along the foot of the wall for about three miles on the landward side, until it stops at what is called the Bridge Gate. The main street iuns from cast to west. One of the peculiarities of the place is a number of walls built across various portions of the city, for the purpose of preventing the spread of fires. Several of the streets are spanned by arches erected in memory of distinguished natives. Ningpo has becu celebrated as possessing the fourth library of Chinese works, ia point of numbers, which existed in the empire. It was owned by a family who resided near the south gate. The site occupied by the foreiga residences is on the north bank of the river. The population of Ningpo is estimated at 120,000.

The trade a N ugpo has never been large. This is owing to a considerable extent, doubtless, to the proximity of Shanghai. The net quantity of Opium imported in 1878 was 7,252 piculs, as against 7,991 piculs in 1877. Of Tea, there were 107,723 piculs exported in 1878, and 148,290 in 1877; Cotton, 21,031 piculs in 1878, 30,092 piculs in 1877. The quantity of Raw Silk exported ia 1878 amounted to 413 bales, as compared with 440 bales for the previous twelve months. The total annual revenue of the port was Tls. 597,514 in 1878; and Tls. 723,300 in 1877.

Consulates.

DIRECTORY.

大英國領事衙門

V. Da-ing-Koh Ling-z-ngô-meng

GREAT BRITAIN.

Consul-Will. M. Cooper

Assistant-

Post Office Agent-

Constable--Walter L. Tomlinson

大美領事衙門

Da-me Ling-s-ngô-meng. UNITED STATES.

Consul-Edwd. C. Lord

大德領車衙門

Du tả Ling--ngô-meng.

GERMANY.

Vice-consul H. B. Meyer

DENMARK.

Consul-W. M. Cooper

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

Consul-W. M. Cooper

大瑞威瑙成領事高門

Da sae-uhe-nau-vay Ling-2-ng-mieng. SWEDEN AND NORWAY.

Vice-consul-H. B. Meyer

大荷蘭領事衙門

Da-who-lan Ling-z-ngô-meng.

NETHERLANDS.

Acting Consul-H. B. Meyer

Imperial Maritime Customs.

淅海關

Tsih Hae-kwaen.

Commissioner--E. B. Drew

| Assistants--R. Piry, F. J. Smith, C. W.

Davis

Tide-surveyor and Harbour Master-El-

mund Wheatley

Assistant Examiners-J. Ross, T. J. Lant Tide-waiters-W. H. Williams, J. P. Donovan, H. Wright, R. von der Leithen, W. B. Walter, J. Ferguson

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