The Taotai i duce the invited a 1 tung to teach. He also furnishes the stray and gives free food to the women and girls who will come, and finally buys the braid, the courser at two cash per foot, and © exch pet
and we trust will be successful. Straw is ounce. ing is a laudable plentiful and cheap, as wheat is raised in great quantity round about, but the great difficulty" will be in getting the braid.to market daring a large part of the year; when the water in the canal is low, it will be necessary to haul it overland by cart, two hundred and forty lite Hsiichien, This is expensive. Then it has to pass numerous Customs (likin) stations gving down the Canal, some of which are notorious for their impositions. Indeed, there seems to be little hope for the development. of trade in the interior until these abominations are abolished.
10th October.
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