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WUHU KIUKIANG.

The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chise cities possess, and is tolerably paved. The tract of land selected for the Breda. Settlement, though admirably suited for the purpose,, has not yet been availed of, The population of Wuhu is estimated at 60,000 inhabitants. The anchorage is good and resembles that of Chinkiang.

大英領事府

Tai-ying-ling--ze-foo.

BRITISH CONSULATE.

Acting Consul-B, C. G. Scott

Constable-G. Perkins

DIRECTORY.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

蕪湖新關

Wuhu Hsin-kno mm.

Assistant in charge-G. B. Glover

Assistants—A. 8. Deane, H. C. Whittlesey

Medical Officer A. Sharp Deane, L.K. &

Q.C.P.I., L R.C.S.I. & L.M.

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-J.

Armour

Boat Officer-E. Molloy Examiner W. Pollock

Assistant Examiner-F. A. Cartmau

Nduwaitors---T. Williamson, H. T. Wavell,

C. A. Swanstrom, P. O. Sjolund Chinese Clerk-Sung A Sea

Hulks "Bombay" & "Geo. Washington"

Russell & Co., proprietors

Hulk "Spirit of the Age," Geo. MacBain,

proprietor

S. Hember, agent

MERCHANTS.

泰洋

Him-tai Yang Hong.

Hember, S., merchant and commissi

agent

Ki Chong.

Russell & Co., merchants

A. E. Salter, agent

H. Burrows

MISSIONS.

Tien-chu-tang.

Rev. Pére J. Seckinger, Society of Jesu

福音堂

Fu-yin-tang.

AMERICAN METHODIST EPISCOPA

MISSION.

Lev. J. Jackson

Rev. G. W. and Mrs. Woodall

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Chu ying Shing shu wai,

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NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND,

Robt. Burnet, agent

KIUKIANG.

Kiukiang is situated on the river Yangtze, near the outlet of the P Lake, and is a prefectural city of the province of Kiang-si. It is distant abo 137 geographical miles from Hankow and 445 miles from Shanghai. Kiuking was at one time a busy and populous city; but it was occupied by the Taip g rebels in 1853, and before it was given up to the Imperial troops it was uttel destroyed, presenting one of those melancholy spectacles which these horde t Qeurpers so often left behind them. A gentleman (Mr. Laurence Oliphant) A visited it in 1858 speaks of the desolation of the city in the following terms:-"}, found it to the last degree deplorable. A single dilapidate street, composed o) of a few mean shops, was all that existed of this once thriving and populous city; remainder of the vast area comprised within its walls, five or six miles in circumfer contained nothing but ruins, weeds, and kitchen gardens." When the foreign a ment was established there, however, the population soon returned, and it has tinued to increase rapidly: it is now estimated at 53,000.