The new America and the Far East Volume 5 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... follow, enters the main stream where it is much smaller than at Wuchau. The Fuho has its headwaters in the highlands between the valleys of the West River and the Sang-ka, or Red River. Running through a broken country, of which we have begun to get an example, it is not navigable for steamers. We soon begin to hear about that inland city of Kwangsi, Naning, which is situated on this river just above one of its sharp bends. The country in this vicinity is comparatively level, rising gently from the banks of the stream into the interior, which is thickly wooded. The town stretches along the encircling river on the north bank, and is a walled city larger than Wuchau, having, perhaps, fifty thousand inhabitants, though it is never safe to figure on the population of a Chinese town. Years ago, before the rebellion of the Yunnan Mussulmen and the Taiping insurrection, it was more prosperous than it is now. The trade during those troublesome times, of which we shall have occasion to speak more definitely hereafter, was driven northward to the Yangtse Kiang, and it has never returned. Probably it will never come back, though the situation of Naning is a promising one, and whenever the country south and west is opened, as it should be, this would become a flourishing commercial centre. Still, before "banking on" the future of this place, it should be considered that the province of Kwangsi is broken, and only a small proportion of its territory is fit for cultivation. These tracts are along the banks of the streams finding their sources in the mountainous interior. This province, which is about the size of our State of Kansas, and Kwang-tung, a little larger, are remarkably thinly populated, according to the general idea of the empire, if the cities are ...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153052741
- ISBN 13 9781153052740
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages52
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