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See also:DUKE See also:HUNALD
of See also:AQUITAINE, succeeded his See also:father See also:Odo, or Eudes, in 735
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He refused to recognize the high authority of the Frankish See also:mayor of the See also:palace, See also: Vaissette, Histoire generale de See also:Languedoc, vol. i . (ed. of 1872 seq.) ; Th . Breysig, H . See also:Hahn, L . Oelsner, S . See also:Abel and B . See also:Simson, Jahrbiicher See also:des deutschen Reichs . (C . PF.) HU-NAN, a central See also:province of See also:China, bounded N. by Hu-peh, E. by Kiang-si, S. by Kwang-si and Kwang-tung, and W. by Kwei-chow and Szech'uen . It occupies an See also:area of 84,000 sq. m., and its See also:population is estimated at 22,000,000 . The provincial See also:capital is Chang-sha Fu, in addition to which it has eight prefectural cities . It is essentially a province of hills, the only considerable See also:plain being that around the Tung-t'See also:ing See also:lake, but this extends little beyond the area which in summer forms See also:part of the lake .
To the See also:north of Heng-chow Fu detached See also:groups of higher mountains than are found in the See also:southern portion of the province are met with
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Among these is the Heng-shan, one of the Wu-yo or five sacred mountains of China, upon which the celebrated tablet of Yu was placed
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The See also:principal See also:rivers of the province are: (1) The Siang-kiang, which takes its rise in the Nan-shan, and empties into the Tung-t'ing lake; it is navigable for a See also:great distance from its mouth, and the area of its See also:basin is 39,000 sq. m.; (2) the Tsze-kiang, the basin of which covers an area of Io,000 sq. m., and which is full of rapids and navigable only for the smallest boats; (3) the Yuen-kiang, a large See also:river, which has some of its See also:head-See also:waters in the province of Kwei-chow, and empties into the Tung-t'ing lake in the neighbourhood of Chang-te Fu; its basin has an area of 35,000 sq. m., 22,500 of which are in the province of Hu-nan and 12,500 in that of Kwei-chow; its See also:navigation is dangerous, and only small boats are able to pass beyond Hang-kia, a mart about 18o m. above Chang-te Fu; and (4) the See also:Ling-kiang, which flows from the See also:tea See also:district of Ho-feng Chow to the Tung-t'ing lake
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Its basin covers an area of about 8000 sq. m., and it is navigable only in its lowest portion
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The principal places of See also:commerce are: (I) Siang-t'an, on the Siang-kiang, said to contain 1,000,000 inhabitants, and to extend 3 M. See also:long by nearly 2 M. deep; (2) Chang-sha Fu, the provincial capital which stands on the same river 6o m. above the treaty See also:port of Yo-chow, and between which mart and Han-kow steamers of 500 tons See also:burden run; and (3) Chang-te Fu, on the Yuen-kiang
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The products of the province are tea (the best quality of which is grown at Gan-hwa and the greatest quantity at Ping-kiang), See also:hemp, See also:cotton, See also:rice, See also:paper, See also:tobacco, tea-oil and See also:coal
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The whole of the south-eastern portion of the province is one vast coal-See also: Yo Chow, the treaty port of the province, stands at the outlet of the river Siang into this lake . |
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