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blankets a necessity for comfort. Sharp Peak also affords a seaside and bathing resort which is much appreciated.
The scenery surrounding Foochow is very beautiful. In sailing up the Min river from the sea vessels have to leave the wide stream and enter what is called the Kimpat Pass, which is barely half-a-mile across, and enclosed as it is by bold, rocky walls, it presents a very striking appearance. The Pass of Min-ngan is narrower, and with its towering cliffs, surmounted by fortifications and cultivated terraces, is extremely pictu- resque, and has been compared to some of the scenes on the Rhine. The Yung Fu, a tributary of the Min, also affords some charming scenery, the hills rising very abruptly from the river bank. The Min Monastery, the Moon Temple, and the Kushan Monastery, all occupying most romantic and beautiful sites, are fine specimens of Chinese religious edifices, and are much resorted to by visitors. Game abounds in all the ravines and mountains in the vicinity of Foochow, while tigers and panthers are common in the more remote hills, and some of these beasts have been killed within ten miles of the city.
On the 1st August. 1895, a fearful massacre of missionaries occurred at Hwasang, a village near Kucheng, 120 miles west of Foochow, nine adults (eight of them ladies) and one child being killed and another child receiving injuries from which it died some days later.
Foreign vessels, with the exception of those of very light draught, are compelled to anchor at Pagoda Island, owing to the shallowness of the river, which has been increasing of late years, and the difficulties of navigation; even at the anchorage the river is silting up in several places. The limits of the port of Foochow extend from the City Bridge to the Kimpai Pass. The Mamoi Arsenal, near Pagoda Anchorage, is an extensive Government establishment, where several good-sized gun- boats have been built. The Arsenal was bombarded by the French on the 23rd-24th August, 1884, and reduced to partial ruin, but has since been restored. The establish- ment is now being reorganised, and is administered by French experts. The construc- tion of a new dock in connection with the Arsenal was commenced in November, 1887, on Losing Island. The dock is over 300 ft. long and has very powerful pumps and a good steel caisson. A small daily paper called the Foochow Echo is published. There is a Government mint in operation. In June, 1900, the port was visited by the most disastrous flood known there in living memory, the river rising through heavy rains which overflowed and deluged the country, sweeping away villages and causing immense havoc and loss of life. The population of Foochow is estimated at 650,000.
The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1901 was Tls. 14,431,516 against Tls. 15,341,825 in 1900, and Tls. 17,351,807 in 1899.
DIRECTORY
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Hip.wo
ANDERSON & Co., ROBERT, Merchants
Henry Schlee
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Foo-chow-mei-hua-shu-chuk
ANGLO-CHINESE BOOK CONCERN, M.E.
Wm. H. Lacy, superintendent
ARSENAL-IMPERIAL
High Commissioner-Tsong San,
Tartar-General
Deputy Commissioner-H. E. Shen Mandarins-Shen, Yang
General Manager-Ch. Doyère, in- génieuren chef de la Marine Française Engineers-A. Bertrand, Ch. David Directeur des Mouvements de la
Taille, enseigne de vaisseau
Secretaries-Emile Bollot, A. Thermy Director of French School--L. Médard Chief Constructors and Overseers--
Jules Bollot, Legris, Trubert, Bonjean
Physician-Dr. Vizerie
Chaplain-R. P. Gonzales
Sisters-Sœurs Louise, Alphonsine,
Armandine
興太 Taiching
BATHGATE & Co., Merchants
John Bathgate (Calcutta)
John C. Oswald
Agencies
Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
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