The railway owns a considerable portion of the water frontage, and here pontoons would have to be stationed or wharfs constructed for the accommodation of the steamers. Whilst no difficulty obtrudes itself in this particular line of development, there is a point of vast importance in regard to the ground where properly godowns and hongs should be stationed. When Tuan Fang was Viceroy at Nanking, a Chinese syndicate—supposed to be! Working with his late Excellency—cornered practically all the ground
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.