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EAST ASIA.
cones of long-extinct
volcanoes. With a circuit of about 25 miles, it is both one of
the largest and best-built cities in China, noted especially for its trade in false
gems and manufacture of a peculiar silken fabric, woven from the cocoons
of a wild silkworm which lives on oak-leaves. Here is a Roman Catholic com-
munity of 12,000 souls, besides many Mohammedans, variously estimated at from
Fig. 78.
TENOCHEVV AND MIAO-TAO ARCHIPELAGO.
Scale 1 : 193,000.
to 33 Feet. 33 to 66 Feet. 66 Feet and upwards.
3 Miles.
10,000 to 20,000. Three miles east of Tsinan is a hill consisting of partly
magnetic iron ores, and on the Yellow River lies its port of Lokao. In the basin
of the Yellow River is also situated Taingan-fu, the " City of Temples," on the
Tawan-ho
(Wuu-ho), which traverses a district
abounding in coal and iron. The
chief
temple dedicated to the holy mountain, Tai-shan, occupies a large space to the