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SAIGON-CAMBODIA.

Trần Nguyên- mini, lawyer, Quai de

l'Arroyo Chinois

Vergonjeanne, blacksmith, Rue Vannier

Viénot, H., lawyer, Rue Pellerin

Vinson, G., lawyer, Rue Charner

SAIGON CATHEDRAL.

H. Le Mée, curate of Sigon

513

L. Thinselin, chaplain to the military hes-

pital

MISSIONS.

Monseigneur Colombert, bishop of Samo- sate and vicar apostolic of the Mission

of Cochin-China.

C. J. Gernot, provicar general

F. Thiriet, provicár general

Willis, brewer, Rue Nationale, and tavern- Prodhomme, secretary to the bishop.

keeper Bonlevard Bounard

RIVER PILOTS.

Arduzer, Marin, Pallas, Gavini, Luperne, Roux, Castera, Carles, Dennemont, Michel, Guédon, Fischer, Dolo, de Lachrvreotière, Bonnet, Pollet, Ollivier

BOYS' PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Director-Carlier

Professors Folliot, Van, Tai, Nanh Inspector Lemaire

GIRLS' PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Mistress-Mme. Dussutour

Acting do.-Mme. Richard

Sub-Mistress-Mme. Bouteiller

Professor of Music-Mdlle, Truc de Tara-

deau

Inspectress-Mdlle. Fabole

SAIGON SEMINARY.

J. Thiriet, superior

J. A. Dumas, professor

Pugnet

do.

F. Humbert

do.

L. Mossard

do.

A. Abonnel

do.

J. M. Dépierre

do.

M. A. Verney

do.

P. Duoc

do.

TAN-DINH SCHOOL.

P. M. Lallemant, director

A. Tho, professor

TABERD SCHOOL.

A. J. Joubert, director

P. Provost, professor

D'ADRAN SCHOOL.

Brother Louis, director

CAMBODIA.

Cambodia, or the Kingdom of the Khmer, as it is called by the natives, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 104 deg. 30 min. longitude, and from 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angcor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam,. on the south-east by French Cochin-China, on the north by the Laos, and on the north- west and west by Battambang and Angcor. The noble river Meikong flows through the kingdom, and after passing through French Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Meikong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. There are some other navigable rivers in the country, but none that compare with this "Great Father of Waters." The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize, and cardamons are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods, ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lead mines in the mountains.

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