Your able articles upon the navigation of the Upper Yangtsze, and the reports of successive British Consular Agents who ave resided in Szechuen, show the inducements offered to merch and others to satablish steam communication with Chungking: The attention of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce was again brought to this subject in May last by Mr. Alexander Hosie, who read to the Chamber a paper entitled "The lo of Western and South-Western Chin: It isa matter of great regret that, whilst this subject is fresh before our minds, and is attracting so much notice at home, we should receive news of a missionary disturbance at Chung-ki Mr. A. Hosie, who spent three years in Szechuen estimates the number of junks trading annually between Ichang and Szechuen at between five and seven thousand, and the cargo carried by them at not than 240,000 for ili is congo betwen Ichang and Ohuug-k \at the gross carrying receipt! amount to about one million pounde sterling. The average value of foreii sent under try the tive years ending 31st December, 1884, mounted to £750,000 aterlin There fic which m and the tazo in specially constructed T leave these matters to the consideration of the mercantile community. I shall limit myself to a few remarks upon the di of the formation of internal navigation with Chung-king, as described by Dir. Hosie in his report, and add a few words about the vessels and machinery suitable for this work, The following extract from Mr, Hosie's report will elucidate matters, "Tohang lies at the eastern series of verges which, with cou: breaks, exter miles, as f Ivis within thi encounter difficulties which are of two kin vary according the season and according to the atate ut the river. At low water, that is to say, during the months of December, January, February and March, the volume of tie Yangtsze, which, owing tothe contraction of the channel is coped up in the gorg on emerging from them pour into ti wider bed of the river, forming and in one place a able importance. This the eastern end of the Mi-tsang Gorge, 33 miles from Ichang, and is caused by a sudden declivity in the bed of the river, on the centre of which, at very low water, two ridges of rock appear, leaving a narrow channel between. By: sides this narrow passage, however, there are two channels, one on each side, between the central rocks and the banke. Fortunately at low water the current on the gorges, where there is no possible tracking ground, is sluggish, and the unwieldy native craft are either rowed or sailed through them, When the river is high, that is during the remaining eight months of the year, the races aug rebids aca
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