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WATOW

Shán-tau

a open to foreigners by the Treaty of Tientsin, is Han, near the eastern border of the Kwangtung sec. N., and long. 116 deg. 39 min. 3 sec. E. It is the chow-fu, the seat of the local government, 35 miles farther up the river.

1 bank of the Han, which forms part of an alluvial f the river flow. The shore on the opposite side is g away to the coast and forming what is known to ood Hope"; Pagoda Hill rises at the opposite side;

large island of Namoa.

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n this locality was inaugurated at Namon, where it it was subsequently removed to Double Island, and is four miles from Swatow. Foreigners here rly years of the settlement by the kidnapping of ng shown against them by the natives that no Island, while they were strictly forbidden to enter t they could do so. In the country round Swatow ch longer duration. The British Consul was held fu, and subsequent to 1861 several ineffectual its gates. In 1866 a visit was made under more ly within the last few years that the population sult to foreigners within its walls. In 1862 the and granted to the British Government on the rom Swatow, but so strong were the demonstra- the matter fell through. Foreign residences, and there, and many of them are consequently rity are in or near the town of Swatow. The led to much over-crowding on the narrow strip ebruary, 1877, no less than 21 acres have been of which is now covered with shops and houses. I to be very salubrious. The town occupies,

rds typhoons, on account of being opposite the und it has on many occasions been subjected to which almost every year sweep across the lower ow is estimated at 35,000.

er been large, but of late years it has shown a is done in sugar, there having been 814,402 xported in 1901, against 846,261 piculs brown 000. The returns for 1902, however, show a port of brown sugar being 640,264 piculs and Sugar Refining Co. of Hongkong have a large me time been suspended. The import into n the Hongkong refineries showed an increase is stupendous, the Hongkong product being product. The increase in the import which red with the figures of the previous year, are of Customs as follows: -Brown Sugar, from

o 14,532 piculs; and refined sugar from 5,486 also started in 1882. The net value of the sance of the Foreign Customs for 1901, was *0, and Tls. 45,151,906 in 1899.