. The awakening of China . d for its scenery; and, as with moimtains every-where else in China, it has been made the seat of a 16 THE AWAKENING OF CHINA Buddhist monastery, with some scores of monkspassing their time not in contemplation, but in idleness. The city of Foochow is imposing with its fine wailof stone, and a long stone bridge called Wansuikiao,the bridge of ten thousand years. It has a popu-lation of about 650,000. To add to its importance ithas a garrison or colony of Manchus who from the dateof the conquest in 1644 have lived apart from theChinese and have not diminished in nvimb
. The awakening of China . d for its scenery; and, as with moimtains every-where else in China, it has been made the seat of a 16 THE AWAKENING OF CHINA Buddhist monastery, with some scores of monkspassing their time not in contemplation, but in idleness. The city of Foochow is imposing with its fine wailof stone, and a long stone bridge called Wansuikiao,the bridge of ten thousand years. It has a popu-lation of about 650,000. To add to its importance ithas a garrison or colony of Manchus who from the dateof the conquest in 1644 have lived apart from theChinese and have not diminished in nvimbers. The American Board and the Methodist EpiscopalBoard have large and prosperous missions at this greatcentre, and from this base they have ramified throughthe surrounding mountains, mostly following thetributaries of the Min up to their sources. In 1850I was entertained at Foochow by the Rev. Dr. C. , who, I am glad to say, still lives after thelapse of fifty-five years; but he is no longer in thendssion CHAPTER IV PROVINCE OF CHEHKIANG Chusdn Archipelago—Putu and Pirates—Queer Fishersand Queer Boats—Ningpo—A Literary Triumph—Search for a Soul—Chinese Psychology—Hangchow—The Great Bore CHEHKIANG, the next province to the north,arid the smallest of the eighteen, is a portionof the highlands mentioned in the last chapter. Itis about as large as Indiana, while some of the provinceshave fotir or five times that area. There is no apparentreason why it should have a distinct provincial govern-ment save that its waters flow to the north, or perhapsbecause the principality of Yuih (iioo ) had sucha boundary, or, again, perhaps because the languageof the people is akin to that of the Great Plain in whichits chief river finds an outlet. How often does aconqueror sever regions which form a natural unit,merely to provide a principality for some favourite! Lying off its coast is the Chusan archipelago, in whichtwo islands are worthy of notice. The lar
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