WUHU  , a

district city in the province of Ngan-hui, China, about 1 m. from the S. bank of the Yangtsze-kiang, with which it is connected by a straggling suburb . It is about 50 M. above Nanking, and in 1858 it was marked out as a treaty port, but was not opened to trade until 1877 . It is connected by canals with the important cities of Ning-Kwo Fu, T`ai-p`ing Hien, Nan-ling Hien and Ching Hien, the silk districts in the neighbourhood of the two last cities being within 5o m. of Wuhu . Coal to a considerable extent exists in the country round . At first its commercial progress was very slow, the older ports of Kiu-kiang and Chin-kiang militating against its success; but of late there has been a distinct improvement in the trade of the port, the net value of which was about £3,000,000 in 1906 . The principal exports are rice, cotton, wheat, tea, furs and feathers, For the production of feathers large quantities of ducks are reared in the surrounding districts . Of imports, opium formes the most considerable item; other imports being matches, needles, sandalwood and window glass . The city, which is one of the largest of its rank in China, was laid desolate during the T'ai-p'ing rebellion, but has been repeopled, the population being estimated (1906) at 137,000 . The streets are comparatively broad and are well paved . The land set apart for the British settlement, advantageously situated, was little built upon . A new general foreign settlement was opened in 1905 .