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time and labour.
drove the innovators from the country.
EAST ASIA.
But the experiment caused a strike amongst the workmen, who
Chung-cheng (Chung-king) is the great emporium
of East Sechuen. Pictu-
resquely situated on the left bank of the Yang-tze at the junction of the navigable
river Pa-ho (Kialiug), this city has become the chief depot for all the produce of
Sechuen and for the manufactured wares imported from the East. It does a larger
trade, especially in silks, tobacco, vegetable oils, and musk, even than the
provincial capital itself. This " Shanghai of West China " has its exchange like
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Fig. 100. COUKSE OF THE YANG-TZE ABOVE THE GORGES.
According to Blakiston. Scale 1 : 1,000,000.
EcPG. 108
. 18 Miles.
tlio European towns, where current prices are regulated, and here is also a silver
refinery, which works up ingots to the daily value of some 4,000. Chung-cheng
really consists of two distinct towns, both ranking as administrative centres,
Chung-cheng proper and Kiangpeh (Limin), west and east of the confluence,
besides a vast suburb on the right bank of the Yang-tze. Most of the wholesale
dealers are strangers from Shensi, Shansi, and Kiangsi, and an English Consul has
been stationed here since 1878. At the beginning of the century the population
was estimated at 36,000, in 1861 Blakiston raised it to 200,000, and according to