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strong stone wall, and some of the stones of the main gateway are of immense size. The style of architecture of these palaces is that of the one-storeyed Chinese yamên. The offices of the Six Ministries or administrative boards, the Ryuk-phan-so, are small houses at the head of the street leading from the Kwang- hwa-mun to the main street. The width of the main streets is much reduced by the construction in front of nearly every house of a rude wooden shanty used for a work- shop or for business purposes, which gives the streets a poor and squalid appearance. The city, like most eastern towns, is very dirty, heaps of filth being allowed to accumulate, and the open drains on each side of the streets are the receptacles for all sorts of abominations. The shops of the capital are small and unattractive, and contain no articles de luxe or curios. The population of the city is variously estimated at from 150,000 to 240,000 persons. A recent return gave the number of houses as 30,723.
FOREIGN OFFICE.
President-Min Yong-mok Vice-President-Kim Hung-chip do. -Li Tso-yön
Do.
do.
-Kim Wan-shik
DIRECTORY.
CHINESE REPRESENTATIVES.
Chief Commissioner-Chen Shu-tang Assistant do. -Chen Yuen-chang
do. -Li Hsing-chu Secretary-Fan Kuai-han Assistant Secretary-Chen Wai-yuen
do. -Cheng Chih-ting
Do.
JAPANESE LEGATION.
Minister Resident-S. Takezoye Secretary of Legation-T. Kobayashi (Con-
sul at Jenchuan) Attaché-S. Kinoshita
do. do.
do.
K. Asayama (Corean interpreter) E. Obe
G. Kato (Chinese interpreter) do. -S. Uchigaki
Attaché-K. Yamada (English interpreter) do. Militaire-Captain S. Isobayashi, staff officer
Physician-H. Kainoshi
BRITISH LEGATION.
Consul General-W. G. Aston (absent) Acting do. -E. C. Baber
UNITED STATES LEGATION.
Chargé d'Affaires, ad int.-Geo. C. Foulk,
Lieut. U.S.N.
GERMAN.
Acting Consul and Imperial Commissioner
-Vice-Consul H. Budler
Clerk-M. J. Domke
Chinese Writer-Chen Yü-shêng Constable-H. Claassen
HIS COREAN MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS. Chief-H. F. Merrill
Commissioner ----
Postmaster--W. du F. Hutchison Assistant-H. G. Armous
do.
—Woo Chung Yen
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND LANGUAGES.
Professor-T. E. Hallifax
JENCHUAN (CHEMULPO).
This port, known to the Japanese as Jinsen, is situated in lat. 37 deg, 28 min. 30 sec. N. and long. 126 deg. 37 min. E., at the entrance to the Saleé river, an embouchure of the Han-kang close to and immediately east of Roze island, on the west coast of Corea, in the metropolitan province of Kiung-kei. Though only three years ago a mere fishing village, and now still in its infancy, many buildings of a substantial character have been erected and the port is rapidly rising into importance as a commercial
centre.
The sub-prefectural town of Jenchuan is situated 10 li distant from the port, which latter is locally known as Chemulpo. Fut-bing on the Han-kang is the nearest prefectural city, and is distant some 35 li, near which place is situated, also
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