FUCHOW  , FU-CHAU, Foocxow, a See also:

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

city of See also:

• CHINA

China, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

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

province of Fu-kien, and one of the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal ports open to See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

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

commerce . In the See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect it is called Hokchiu . It is situated on the See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• MIN

Min, about 35 M. from the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea, in 26° 5' N. and 119 ° 20' E., 140 M . N. of See also:

• AMOY

Amoy and 28o S. of Hang-chow . The city proper, lying nearly 3 M. from the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north See also:

• BANK

bank of the river, is surrounded by a See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall about 30 ft. high and 12 ft. thick, which makes a See also:

• CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit of upwards of 5 M. and is pierced by seven gateways surrounded by tall fantastic See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch-towers . The whole See also:

• DISTRICT

district between the city and the river, the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Nantai, and the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the Min are occupied by extensive suburbs; and the river itself bears a large floating See also:

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

population . Communication from bank to bank is afforded by a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge supported by See also:

• FORTY

forty solid stone piers in its See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section and by nine in its southern . The most remark-able See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of Fuchow is the See also:

• ARSENAL

arsenal situated about 3 M. down the stream at See also:

• PAGODA (Port. pagode, a word introduced in the 16th century by the early Portuguese adventurers in India, reproducing phonetically some native word, possibly Pers. but-kadah, a house for an idol, or some form of Sansk. bhagavat, divine, holy)

Pagoda Island, where the sea-going vessels usually See also:

• ANCHOR (from the Greek ayrcvpa, which Vossius considers is from 6yi17 , a crook or hook)

anchor . It was founded in 1867, and is conducted under the direction of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• ENGINEERS, MILITARY

engineers according to See also:

• EUROPEAN

European methods . In 187o it employed about moo workmen besides fifty European superintendents, and between that date and x88o it turned out about 20 or 30 small gunboats . In 1884 it was partially destroyed by the French See also:

• FLEET

fleet, and for a number of years the workshops and machinery were allowed to stand idle and go to decay . On the 1st of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1895 an attack was made on the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• MISSION

mission near the city of Ku-chang, 120 M. See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of Fuchow, on which occasion nine missionaries, of whom eight were ladies, were massacred .

The See also:

• PORT

port was opened to European commerce in 1842; and in 1853 the See also:

• FIRM

firm of See also:

• RUSSELL (FAMILY)
• RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
• RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
• RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
• RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
• RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
• RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
• RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
• RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
• RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )

Russell and Co. shipped the first cargoes of See also:

• TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea from Fuchow to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe and See also:

• AMERICA

America . The See also:

• TOTAL

total 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 in foreign vessels in 1876 was imports to the value of £1,531,617, and exports to the value of £3,330,489 . In 1904 the imports amounted to £1,440,351, and the exports to £1,034,436 . The number of vessels that entered in 1876 was 275, and of these 211 were See also:

• BRITISH

British, 27 See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, 1 x Danish and 9 See also:

• AMERICAN

American . While in 1904 480 vessels entered the port, 216 of which were British . A large trade is carried on by the native merchants in See also:

• TIMBER

timber, See also:

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

paper, woollen and 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 goods, oranges and See also:

• OLIVES, MOUNT OF, or MOUNT OLIVET ("Opus 'EXc uwos or riov 'EXauav; mod. Jebel-et-Tur)

olives; but the foreign houses mainly confine themselves to See also:

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

opium and tea . Commercial intercourse with See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia and New See also:

• ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand is on the increase . The principal imports, besides opium, are shirtings, T-cloths, See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead and See also:

• TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin, medicines, 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, See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco, and beans and peas . Two steamboat lines afford See also:

• REGULAR

regular communication with Hong-See also:

• KONG

Kong twice a See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month . The See also:

• TOWN

town is the seat of several important See also:

• MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

missions, of which the first was founded in 1846 . That supported by the American See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board had in 1876 issued 1,3000,000 copies of See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese books and tracts .