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SHANGHAI

ROADS IN THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT

NORTH AND SOUTH

Rue de la Porte du Nord.. Rue Protêt

Quai de France

W✯ ✯ YALE |

Rue Discry..

Quai Kin Lee Yuen

河城面後源利金 路行洋 街彤 路州京 街安永 街堂主天外門北新 街星典 街祥吉

Rue de l'Administration...

Rue de Saigon

Rue Palikao

Quai des Remparts

Rue du Whampou..

Rue des Poissons

Rue Chinchew

Rue Laguerre..

Rue Montauban

Rue de la Mission

Rue Petit......

Rue du Marché Français....

Quais du Yang-king-pang et

Confucius

Quais de le Pagode, des Fossés,

et de la Brèche...

Rue du Consulat

Rue Colbert

Rue du Weikwé

Rue de Ningpo..........

跻

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Rue du Moulin Rue Touranne Rue Huć.....

Rue des Pères

Quai de l'Ouest..

EAST AND WEST

Rue de la Paix

Rue de l'Est 后天 Rue Formose

Rue Takoo.. Rue Chusan Rue du Fokien Rue Ming-hong

宮涼馬東街馬

后河館安興波

公永寧

路馬波 Passage Néziang

CHINKIANG

街大

街

來北街檢家1

街門舘

木

街橋 街橋新路

街行

街西行火來

#四陳火新恨

路橋里八

街大興

·街大門東

路灣

路古太 路山福

路建舟

裕臺小太福舟閔南

The port of Chinkiang (or Chên-kiang-fu), which was declared open to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin, is situated on the Yangtszę, about 150 miles from its mouth, and at the point where the Grand Canal enters the river.

The history of Chinkiang possesses but few features of interest. The town, as a translation of its name implies (“River Guard"), was at one time a post of considerable importance from a military point of view, when all the rice-tribute from the south of China was transported to Peking by the interior route. The British forces captured the place in July, 1842, and as the cutting off of supplies always operates with great effect, the commanding situation thus secured was not long in producing the desired result upon the Central Government, for the Treaty of Nanking was signed a month afterwards. The Taiping rebels entered the town in April, 1853, and continued to occupy it till 1857, when they had to evacuate it from the same cause which had made the Government yield fifteen years before.

The city lies between one of the mouths of the Grand Canal and the right bank of the Yangtsze. Most of the houses are built on level ground, but the surrounding hills lend a pleasant appearance to the locality, which is considerably enhanced by the bluff scenery of the island of Ts'io-shan. When the city was abandoned by the rebel forces, its destruction was very nearly complete, and it has even now hardly recovered its former prosperous aspect. The city is enclosed by walls and defended by rather formidable looking batteries commanding the river approaches. The foreign settlement- occupies a tract of land extending from the mouth of the Canal along the bank of the river. The little settlement has a neat bund, is provided with a club, and has small Protestant and Catholic churches. It was the scene of a formidable riot on the 5th February, 1889, when about half the foreign houses and buildings were destroyed by a native mob. The population of Chinkiang is estimated at 140,000.

Considerable commercial importance was attached to the port when it was first opened. The largest vessels can approach it, and hopes were high as to the position it would occupy in the development of inland trade with China; but the trade on the Yangtsze seems to have centred at Hankow, farther up the river. The net value of the foreign imports for 1894 was Tls. 10,629,167 as compared with Tls. 9,763,696 in 1893. The import of Opium into Chinkiang in 1894 was 4,179 piculs, against 3,372 piculs in 1893, and 10,900 piculs in 1884, the trade having declined owing to the competition of the lighter taxed native drug. The total value of the trade of the port for 1894 amounted to Tls. 19,292,491, and in 1893 to Tls. 17,328,603.