890
茂隆
CHUNGKINGHANGCHOW
MACKENZIE & Co., LTD.-Codes: A.B.C.
5th edn. and Bentley's
C. D. Dixon, manager
S. B. Starling
F. R. Lamb
Agencies
A. T. Pennecard
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpn. Lloyd's
Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.
London & Lancashire Fire Insce.Co., Ld. North China Insurance Co., Ld. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phoenix Life Insurance Co.
China Mutual Life, Insce. Co., Ld.
Shanghai Life Insurance Co., Ld.
Owners
S. S. "Loong Mow," Ichang-Chungking S. S. "Shutung," Chungking-Suifu
司公船輪淸日
NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA
PHILIPPIDI, C. M., Watchmaker, Jeweller
& General Importer-Tel. Ad: Philippidi
PHILIPPIDI & Co., C. M., Importers
C. M. Philippidi
Ou Yo Ni, manager
局政郵
Postmaster-S. J. Harris
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
來大
ROBERT DOLlar Co.
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. S. Hammond M. A. Mitchell
G. W. Brown
J. H. Morrison, const. supt. J. H. Selner inst. supt.
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, sub-manager
HANGCHOW
h ta Hưng-chau
州杭
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 famous phenomenon, which is formed by the north-east trade wind heaping up the water 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.
Before the Taiping rebellion Hangchow shared with Soochow the reputation of being one of the finest cities in the Empire on account of its wealth and splendour, but it was almost destroyed by the rebels. Since then it has recovered to a considerablé degree, and is once more populous and flourishing, though it has not yet regained its former pitch of prosperity. Historically, Hangchow is perhaps the most
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