AMOY  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and treaty-See also:

• PORT

port in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of Fuh-kien, See also:

• CHINA

China, situated on the slope of a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill, on the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of a small and barren See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island named Hiamen, in 240 28' N. and 118° io' E . It is a large and exceedingly dirty See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, about 9 M. in circumference, and is divided into two portions, an inner and an See also:

• OUTER

outer See also:

• TOWN

town, which are separated from each other by a See also:

• RIDGE (a word. common to many Teutonic languages, meaning " back," whether of a man or an animal, cf. German Rucke)
• RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT (1864- )

ridge of hills, on which a citadel of considerable strength has been built . Each of these divisions of the city possesses a large and commodious See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, that of the inner town, or city proper, being protected by strong fortifications . There are dry-docks and an excellent anchorage . Amoy may be regarded as the port of the inland city of Chang-chow, with which it has See also:

• RIVER

river communication, and its See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, both See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign and coastwise, is extensive and valuable . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief articles imported are See also:

• SUGAR

sugar, See also:

• RICE (Greek 6p6 a, Latin oryza, French riz, Italian riso, Spanish arroz, derived from the Arabic)
• RICE, EDMUND IGNATIUS (1762-1844)
• RICE, JAMES (1843-1882)

rice, raw See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton and See also:

• OPIUM (Gr. amov, dim. from Orbs, juice)

opium, as well as cotton cloths, See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron goods and other See also:

• EUROPEAN

European manufactures . The chief exports are See also:

• TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea, See also:

• PORCELAIN

porcelain and See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper . The trade carried on by means of See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese junks is said to be large, and the native merchants are considered to be among the wealthiest and most enterprising in China . By other vessels the trade in 187o was: imports, £1,915,427; exports, £I,44o,000 . In 1904 the figures were:—imports, £2,081,494; exports, £384,494 . The falling off of exports is due to the decreased demand for China tea, for which Amoy was one of the chief centres . The native See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population is now estimated at 300,000, and the foreign residents number about 280 .

A large See also:

• PART

part of the trade is that carried on with the neighbouring See also:

• JAPANESE

Japanese island of See also:

• FORMOSA
• FORMOSA (called Taiwan by the Chinese, and following them by the Japanese, into whose possession it came after their war with China in 1895)

Formosa . The province of Fuh-kien is claimed by the Japanese as their particular See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere of See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence . Amoy was captured by the See also:

• BRITISH

British in 1841, after a determined resistance, and is one of the five ports that were opened to British See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce by the treaty of 1842; it is now open to the See also:

• SHIPS

ships of all nations .