. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. l large steamers traderegularly between Canton, Shanghai, and Tien-tsin, carryingalmost exclusively native merchandise, such as drugs, driedfruits, iron and brass ware, paper (of which large quantitiesare manufactured near Canton from the macerated hull of thebanilioo), etc. It is nirely that foreign traders are concernedin these shipments. The great staples of tea and silk, opiumand cotton goods, may still be said to occupy almost exclu-sively the attention of foreign mcrcliants. German and Frenchhouses do, In
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. l large steamers traderegularly between Canton, Shanghai, and Tien-tsin, carryingalmost exclusively native merchandise, such as drugs, driedfruits, iron and brass ware, paper (of which large quantitiesare manufactured near Canton from the macerated hull of thebanilioo), etc. It is nirely that foreign traders are concernedin these shipments. The great staples of tea and silk, opiumand cotton goods, may still be said to occupy almost exclu-sively the attention of foreign mcrcliants. German and Frenchhouses do, Indeed, import some quantities of petty Kurnpeanmanufactures, among which watches and fire-arms take thelead ; but the importance of this trade i< not great. Amongthe articles of tho second class to be enumerated are mattingand flre-crackers (largely shipped to the U. States), and 1,200,000. Foo-CHOW, the capital of prov. Foo-keen, is one of the prin-cipal Treaty porLi. It lies on the river Min,34 m, from itsmouth in tho Formosa Channel, in lat. 26^ 2 24 N., and game parallel of latitude as Calcutta, there is a considerabledifference in their temperature; tho former being much cooler,and requiring fires during the winter months. The streets arovery narrow, paved with little round stones, and flagged closeto the sides of the houses. The front of every is a shop,and those of particular stroeta arc laid out for the supply ofstrangers. China Street is appropriated to Kuropeans ; andhero the productionsof almost every part of tho globe aro to befound. One of the shop-keepers is always to be found sittingon the counter, writing with a camels-hair brush, or calculat-ing with his which instrument a Chinese will per-form operations in nunilwrs with as much celerity as the mostexpert European arithmetician. The Chinese, considered astnwlers. are eminently jictive, persevering, and are, In fact, a highly commercial people ; and the not
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