Life among the Chinese: with characteristic sketches and incidents of missionary operations and prospects in China . f the Methodist Episcopal Church in China. It isthe capital of the Fuh-kien province, belongs to thefirst class of Chinese cities, and contains a populationof about six hundred thousand. It has long been acelebrated city among the Chinese, and its beautifulscenery has often inspired the genius of native poets,one of whom seeks to express his admiration inhighly wrought hyperbole, beginning Ten thousand miles around FuhchauSpread out the terraced hills. The city has been consider
Life among the Chinese: with characteristic sketches and incidents of missionary operations and prospects in China . f the Methodist Episcopal Church in China. It isthe capital of the Fuh-kien province, belongs to thefirst class of Chinese cities, and contains a populationof about six hundred thousand. It has long been acelebrated city among the Chinese, and its beautifulscenery has often inspired the genius of native poets,one of whom seeks to express his admiration inhighly wrought hyperbole, beginning Ten thousand miles around FuhchauSpread out the terraced hills. The city has been considered one of the strongmilitary posts of the empire; and its inhabitantshave always enjoyed a high reputation for literaryattainments and commercial activity. In the earlyhistory of foreign intercourse with China attentionwas directed to Fuhchau as an important commer-cial, entrepot. In 1668 an agent of the EnglishEast India Company reported to the Court of Direc-tors : Hokchue (the local pronunciation for Fuh-chau) will be a place of great resort, affording allChina commodities, as tutanag, silk, raw and wrought,. SITUATION. 143 gold, China-root, tea, etc.; for which must be carriedbroadcloth, lead, amber, pepper, coral, sandal-wood,red-wood, incense, cacha, [cassia,] putchuk, etc. In1681 the Company ordered their establishments atFormosa and Amoy to be withdrawn, with a view toopening trade at Canton and Fuhchau. Theseearly efforts were unsuccessful, and it was not till1853 that foreign commerce was fully opened atFuhchau. The city is situated in the northern portion of anamphitheater about twenty miles in diameter, formedby the circling ranges of high mountains. The sur-face of this amphitheater is diversified by woodedknolls and occasional hills of considerable altitude,some of which the husbandman has cultivated to thesummit, while others present to the eye immensemasses of granite, relieved by intervening patches ofsparse vegetation. The Min River enters the amphi-theater fr
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