The Archive · 1896

Great Deal of Building

is now in progress in the French Concession; there is talk of considerable building in the extra-Concession, while all the suburbs of the native city give indications, in the number of buildings that are going up, that Business must be flourishing "and the population increasing. is upon us. There is not much to speak of in the way of scenery, although there are some fine views of mountains to the eastward, and the sea and its breezes are not to be discounted.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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