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EAST ASIA.
station, which also owns forty coasting steamers. This is the only Chinese city
which possesses dockyards, where merchant vessels are built under the direction of
European engineers. Here also a cotton-spinning mill, a tannery, and some other
industries were established in 1879 on the European model. The coal mines of
the sufficient fuel for all the steamers
Yang-tze yield plying on the river, and are
Fig. 107. SHANGHAI.
Scale 1 : 41,000.
to lli Feet 1 to 32 Feet. 32 to 80 Feet. 80 Feet and upwards.
1,100 Yards.
gradually replacing the foreign coal in Shanghai itself. The city is traversed by
tramways, and the racecourse is surrounded by fine avenues, which are continued
as far as the " Bubbling Well," a hot spring discharging sulphuric acid gas.
Broad macadamised roads radiate for G or 7 miles round to the villas and country
seats of the foreign and native merchants ; but the Government has not yet