This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Hk. Taels; expenditure, 5,355,657 Hk. Taels. Open Ports: Sui-fen-ho, Ch'ang-ch'un, Chi-lin, Hun-ch'un, San-hsing, Ninguta, Lung-ching Ts'un. Hii-lung-Chiang is bounded on the N. by the river Amur; its capital is Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh (Ts'i-ts'i-kar). Budget receipts, 933-256 Hk. Taels; expenditure 4.893 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Hk. Taels; expenditure, 5,355,657 Hk. Taels. Open Ports: Sui-fen-ho, Ch'ang-ch'un, Chi-lin, Hun-ch'un, San-hsing, Ninguta, Lung-ching Ts'un. Hii-lung-Chiang is bounded on the N. by the river Amur; its capital is Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh (Ts'i-ts'i-kar). Budget receipts, 933-256 Hk. Taels; expenditure 4.893.145 Hk. Taels. Northern China, 19. Open Ports: Man-chou-li, Harbin, Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh (Pu-k'uei), Hai-la erh, Ai-hun. (Aigun). Geography: In the plains, wheat, sorghum, maize, millet, tobacco, soya, beans, potatoes, flax, indigo, sesame, the oriental poppy and hemp are cultivated. The soya is a leguminous plant whose seed called v oily peas contains but little starch and a large proportion of nitrogenous and fatty matter. From this point of view, it is a first rate article of food for diabetic patients. The residue of the beans, when the oil has been extracted, is made into cakes used for manure. Ginseng is a medicinal plant much sought after. Manchuria produces, annually, about 4 1/2 million silk cocoons, half of which go to the spinning mills of Chi-fou and thence to Europe; the remainder is retained for local requirements. The wild silk is produced by a grub which feeds on oak leaves. This industry is chiefly carried on in the S. of Manchuria, just as rice and cotton are chiefly cultivated there. In the vast meadows, herds of cattle and horses and flocks of sheep and goats are met with; swine are also numerous. Manchuria, with its continuation the Gobi deserts, its Siberian taiga, its agricultural plain in the S., presents landscapes as varied as its flora, its fauna and its inhabitants; the birch grows near the paddy fields, the tiger roams the regions neighbouring the habitation of the bear and zhibeline; the White man rubs shoulders...
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