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in height, 25 feet thick at the base, and 15 feet wide on the terre plein. The total circumference of the walls round the two cities slightly exceeds twenty miles.

The Tartar city consists (Dr. Williams tell us) of three enclosures, one within the other, each surrounded by its own wall. The innermost, called Kin-ching or Prohibited City, contains the Imperial Palace and its surrounding buildings; the second is occupied by the several offices appertaining to the Government and by private residences of officials; while the outer consists of dwelling-houses, with shops in the chief avenues. The Chinese city is the business portion of Peking, but it presents few features of interest to sight-seers, while the enclosure known as the Prohibited City is, as its title denotes, forbidden to all foreign visitors. The numerous temples, the walls, the Imperial Observatory, the Foreign Legations, and the curio shops are the chief attractions to the tourist. The streets of the Chinese metropolis are kept in a most disgraceful condition. In the dry season the pedestrian sinks deep in noxious dust, and in wet weather he is liable to be drowned in the torrents that rush along the throughfares, where the constant traffic has worn away the soil. There is an air of decay about Peking which extends even to the finest of the temples. The population of Peking is not accurately known, but according to a Chinese estimate, which is probably slightly in excess, it is 1,300,000, of whom 900,000 reside in the Tartar and 400,000 in the Chinese city. There is no direct foreign trade with Peking, and the small foreign population is made up of the members of the various Legations, the Maritime Customs establishments, the professors of the College of Peking, and the missionary body. In August, 1884, the city was brought into direct telegraphic communication with the rest of the world, by an overland line to Tientsin via Tungchow.

署公司務稅總

DIRECTORY

Tsung Shui-wu-ssä Kung-shu

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL

TORATE-GENERAL

MARITIME INSPEC-

Inspector General-Sir Robert Hart,

Bart., G.C.M.G.

Act. Chief Secty.-Smollett Campbell Act. Chinese Secty.-W. F. Spinney Acting Audit Secretary-A. T. Piry Statistical Secty.-H. Kopsch (S'hai) Non-Resident Secty.-J. D. Campbell,

C.M.G. (London)

Acting Assist. Secretary-F. A. Aglen Act. Asst. Ch. Secretary-V. von Grot Chief Accountant-J. A. von Alst Assistant Statistical Secretary-P. G.

von Möllendorff (Shanghai) Private Secretary-E. Bruce Hart Assistant-H. M. W. Grundmann

Do. -F. W. Maze

Do.-W. MacDonald Do.

-P. von Rautenfeld

Postal Clerk-H. J. da Costa

Do. E. E. Encarnação

Gas Engineers-C. B. Mears, A. Child

Hui-fêng

HILLIER, E.G., agent Hongkong and

Shanghai Banking Corporation

A. M. Bruce

Han-tah-lee

HOTEL DE Peking

L. Tallieu, proprietor

館女同

IMPERIAL COLLEGE

Tung-wén-kwan

President-C. H. Oliver, M.A.

Professor of Anatomy and Medicine-

J. Dudgeon, M.D.

Professor of Astronomy and Mathe- matics S. Marcus Russell, M.A. (absent)

Professor of Mathematics-Sekan Professor of Experimental Physics-

C. C. Stuhlmann, PH.D.

Acting Professor of Chemistry—C. C.

Stuhlmann, PH.D.

Professor of French-C. Vapereau Profr. of English-Wm. MacDonald Profr. of Russian--P. von Rautenfeld Profr. of German-W. Grundmann Professors of Chinese Literature-

Three Chinese Chi-jin Proctors-Four Chinese Officials

Chang-hsien-sheung

JEANRENAUD, CHS., Rentier

弗羅邟 Shi-lo-fu

KIERULFF, P., Commission Agent, Store-

keeper, and Dealer in Curios; Manufac-

turer of Peking Enamels

P. Kierulff

A. Brandt

Agencies

Hamburg Fire Insurance Co. of 1877

Hamburg-Magdeburg Fire Insce. Co. Mannheim Insurance Company