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CHUNGKING–HANGCHOW

JUI CHING STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

茂隆

MACKENZIE & Co., LTD.-Codes: A. B. C.

5th ed. and Bentley's

C. D. Dixon, manager

S. B. Starling |

Agencies

A. T. Pennecard

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpn. Lloyd's

Butterfield & Swire

Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

London & Lancashire Fire Insce.Co.,Ld. North China Insce. Co., Ld.

Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada.

Phoenix Life Insce. Co.

China Mutual Life Insce. Co., Ld.

Shanghai Life Insurance Co., Ld. Owners

S. S. "Loong Mow," Ichang-Chungking

S. S. "Shutung," Chungking-Suifg

PHILIPPIDI, C. M., Watch-dealer, Optician

and General Importer

A. Papadakis, travelling agent

局政郵

POST OFFICE, CHINESE-First-Class Office

Postmaster-S. J. Harris

ROBERT DOLLAR Co.

911

SINO-FRENCH TRADING CORPORATION (A. Lordereau & Cie.), Shuhun and Shin Shuting Line

A. Lordereau, general manager Wen Yu Shun, Chinese manager

Y. K. Dai, clerk

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

F. H. Weber, manager

R. M. Reid

C. H. Harris

A. G. Wild

J. H. Morrison, const. supt.

B. J. Simpson, inst. supt.

司公限有份股船輪江川 Chuen-kiang-lung-zen-kung-sze

SZECHUEN STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

Y. S. Wen

s.s. "Shu Hun"-Capt. F. Brandt

S.S

Shin Shutung,"-A. R. Williamson R. D. Young, shipping clerk

YOUNG BROTHERS TRADING Co., Import and Export Merchants and Commis- sion Agents-Hsin Fêng Kai; Tel. Ad: Yangbrosco

S. C. Yang, managing director A. W. Davidson, secretary

J. Lee

HANGCHOW

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Hangchow, the capital of the province of Chekiang, is situated 120 miles south- west of Shanghai, and 110 miles south of Soochow, adjacent to the Chien-tang River (the Green River of Robert Fortune's famous journeys to the neighbouring tea districts' at the apex of a bay which is too shallow for the navigation of steamers. The mouth of the river is, moreover, visited by a bore, or tidal wave, which further endangers navigation. The highest bores occur in autumn during the three days after the middle of the eighth moon, and Haining is the best place for observing this phenomenon, which is formed by the north-east trade wind heaping up the wate of the Pacific on the China coast and causing enormous tides. Hangchow Bay is shaped like a funnel, and the mass of water rushing up, more and more concentrated as it advances, is suddenly confronted by the current of the river. The constriction and opposition, acting in concert, bank up the rising water. Gathering momentum and speed with the immense pressure of the ocean behind it, thus forcing its volume into the ever-narrowing waterway, the bore occasionally attains, at a favourable spring- tide, a height of as much as 15 feet as it rushes, with a roar like thunder, along the sea-wall on the northern shore of the Bay, at a rate sometimes reaching 12 miles an hour.