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會老長

CHINKIANG-NANKING

AMERICAN SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN

Chinkiang

Rev. S. I. and Mrs. Woodbridge

Rev. J. E. and Mrs. Bear

Ts'ing Kiang-p'u

Rev. A. and Mrs. Sydenstricker Rev. H. M. and Mrs. Woods Edgar Woods, M.D., and wife Rev. J. R. and Mrs. Graham

J. B. Woods, M.D., and wife Rev. P. C. Patterson

Mrs. Patterson, M.D.

Rev. Mark B. Grier

Rev. H. W. White

Miss Ellen Emerson (absent)

掌蘇耶會地内

Nui-ti-huei Je-su-tong.

CHINA INLAND MISSION: Tel. Ad. Inland

Chinkiang

G. A. Cox, L.R.C.P.S., ED., and Mrs. Cox

Yang-chow

Geo, and Mrs. Andrew

J. E. and Mrs. Duff

Miss Murray

Miss Box

Miss Henry

Miss Pearson

Training Home, Yang-chow

Miss Muir

Miss Cole

Miss M. Murray

堂主天

Tien-tsu-dang

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. F. J. Chevalier, s.J

Rev. F. Y. Pennors, S.J.

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

Council-T. Weatherstone, (chairman),

F. Gregson (hon. secty and treas.),

A. E. Allen

Health Officer-Dr. J. A. Lynch

J. Singer, inspector of police

和瑞 Suizho

STARKEY, E., Commission Agent

昌泰

Tai-chang

WADLIEGH & EMERY, General Commission

Merchants

E. C. Wadliegh (New York)

D. A. Emery

H. A. Emery

Yu Ching and others

Agencies

Palatine Fire Insurance Company Equitable Life Assurance Soc. of U.S.A. Sun Life Assurance Co., of Canada Straits Insurance Company, Limited

associated with others

Eastern Manufacturing Company.

WU CHOU SHAN BUNGALOW

Trustees-H.B.M. Consul and Com-

missioner of Customs

NANKING

This city owes its present name, "Southern capital," to having been many times the capital of the Empire, the last occasion being in the Ming dynasty at the commencement of the 15th century. It is also known as Kiang Ning Fu, being the chief city of the prefecture of Kiang Ning, and the seat of government for the provinces grouped under the designation of Kiang Nan. In official documents it is not considered proper to call the city Nanking, since the Government acknowledges but one capital. Besides Kiang Ning Fu, an elegant Chinese name commonly used is Kin Ling or "golden mound." From the 5th or 6th century B.C. to the present there has been a walled city at this place. Nanking is not yet an open port, although it is specified in the French Treaty of 1858 as one of the Yangtsze ports to be opened to trade, and its formal opening can doubtless be claimed at pleasure by the French Government.

Nanking is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze, 45 miles beyond Chinkiang and 205 from Shanghai. From the river little can be seen of it except the long line of lofty grey brick walls which encircle it. The walls have an elevation varying from 40 to 90 feet are from 20 to 40 feet in thickness and 22 miles in circumference. They enclose a vast area, a large portion of which is wilderness or cultivated land. The inhabited portion lies towards the south and west, and is several miles from the banks of the river. Whatever of architectural beauty or importance belonged to Nanking perished or was reduced to a ruinous condition at or before its occupation by the Taiping rebels. The world famous Porcelain Tower, the most beautiful pagoda in China, was completely destroyed during this period of its history, and now only broken and scattered bricks remain of the structure that was once the glory of Nanking. It