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Encyclopedia Britannica



WUHU

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 855 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
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.


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