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CHOLON-CAMBODIA

BAN SOON AN & Co., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents

Ong Ka Tiong Tan Ho Seng Teo Un Kong Tan Yu Wee

Lim Keng

Agencies

Shan Line of Steamers

Bun Hin Line of Steamers

Man On Insurance Company Po On Insurance Company Khean Guan Insurance Company

HOSPITAL

Supérieure-Soeur Laurence Septs Sœurs

KLOSS & Co., Merchants

Walter Kloss (Saigon)

Tan Tian San

MAN CHEONG YUEN RICE MILL

Nam Long & Co., general agents

MONT DE PIÉTÉ

N. Reynand V. Léon

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

Councillors-Linger, O. du Crouzet, Berthet, Tran Tuong Thoai, Lam Quan Kien, Ong Phong Hoa, Khun Tiet, Lam Thien Tong, Cham Leng Secretariat

Secretary-G. Guyot

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Accountant-Passerat de la Chapelel

Roads

Architect of Roads-S. Prunier Draftsman-L. Ippolito

Chief Surveyor of Roads-Berthety Overseer of Roads-F. Gonnord Municipal Treasury

Receiver--Costa

Writ Server-Marydassou

Police

Commissioner-Micheli

Brigadiers-Rivière, Gérolami, Pietri Sub-Brigrs.-Boulanger, Denis, Muller Municipal Boys' School

Director-Giroux

Professor-Mme. Giroux

Municipal Girls' School

Directress-Sister Louise de Jesus

Teachers 1 French, 2 native Sisters Municipal Hospital

Directress-Sister Laurence

Assistants-3 French, 4 native Sisters Doctor-Sartre, M.F.P.

RIZERIE À VAPEUR DE CHOLON, Quai de

Mytho

A. Linger, ingénr. dirtr. (Saigon) A. Endel, comptable, do. Marchetti, chef mécanicien Georgi, Otts, mécaniciens

RIZERIE "ORIENT

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C. Speidel & Co., general agents

RIZERIE DE L'UNION

W. & Th. Speidel & Co., general agents

CAMBODIA

Cambodia, or the kingdom of the Khmer, as it is called by the natives, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 104 deg. 30 min. longitude E. of Paris, and from 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angkor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam, on the south-east by French Cochin-China, on the north by the French Laos, and on the north-west and west by Angkor and Battambang. The noble river Mekong flows through the kingdom, and after passing

passing through French Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Mekong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize, and cardamoms are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods, ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered, and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lead mines in the mountains. The fisheries of Cambodia are very productive, and salt fish forms one of the chief articles of export.

Cambodia was once an extensive and powerful state, and proofs that it possessed a much higher civilisation than now prevails are to be found in the architectural remnants of former grandeur. The noble ruins of the ancient city of Angkor are monuments of a

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