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CHUNGKING

The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtsze, 1,100 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side of the Yangtsze. It is surrounded by a crenelated stone wall in good repair, which is some five miles in circumference, pierced with nine gates. This wall was built in 1761, replacing an older one. The climate of Chungking is very depressing, perhaps the worst in China, the summers being hot and damp, the winters raw and chilly, with thick fogs from November to March. Spring and autumn can indeed hardly be said to exist. The ordinary rise of the river is about 70 feet; in the year 1871 the Chinese say it rose over one hundred feet, the water not being able to force its way fast enough through the gorges. On the left bank of the Kia-ling and facing Chungking, extending below the junction of the two rivers, is the walled city of Kiang-Peh-ting, formerly within the district of Li Min Fu, but now incorporated in Chungking Fu. These two cities, and the large villages in their immediate neighbourhood are estimated to contain a population of about 300,000. The population of Chungking itself is 109,100.

The port was declared open to Foreign trade in March, 1891, but business did not actually commence until the 18th June, since which date a large trade has been done both in imports and exports, carried in foreign chartered junks. The net value of the trade for 1894 was Tls. 10,780,389 as against Tis. 8,740,896 in 1893.

The Yangtsze is navigable for steamers from Ichang, not only to Chungking, but as far as Suchau-fu, where the Min river joins the Yangtsze, but hitherto steamers have not been allowed to ascend above Ichang. By the Japanese treaty of 1894, how- ever, the right of steam navigation to Chungking has been secured

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AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION; address care of Local Post Office, Hankow

Rev. C. A. Salquist

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C. H. Finch, M.D., and Mrs. Finch Geo, and Mrs. Warner

R. and Mrs. Wellwood

Kaiting

C. F. and Mrs. Viking Miss E. Inveen (absent) W. F. and Mrs. Beaman Yachou

Rev. G. W. and Mrs. Hill

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China Inland Mission: Tel. Ad. Inland

Rev. F. J. and Mrs. Dymond, Chao

T'ong-fu

Rev. W. & Mrs. Tremberth, Tong

Ch'uan-fu

Mrs. Thorne

Miss Dunn

E. J. Piper

泰公商美

BURNETT & JENKINS, Merchants

G. E. T. Gardiner

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

CANADIAN METHODIST MISSION, Chengtu

V. C. Hart, D.D.

Mrs. Hart (absent) Miss S. Hart, do. G. Hartwell

Mrs. Hartwell (absent)

D. Stevenson, M.D. (absent)

Mrs. Stevenson

O. L. Kilborn, M.D. & Mrs. Kilborn

J. and Mrs. Endicott

H. M. Hare, M.D.

Miss S. C. Brackhill

Miss Ford

堂穌耶

CHINA INLAND MISSION: Tel. Ad. Inland

T. and Mrs. Gear Willett

P. Williams

W. B. Moses

H. E. Bolton

司公瞼保川利

CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMPANY, LD.

Archibald Little, resident manager Agency

China Traders' Insurance Company

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

E. B. Vardon

CONSULATE-FRANCE

Consul-F. Haas (absent)