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Chinese, exceeds r000 persons. Kobe is considered the brightest and healthiest of all the places assigned as foreign settlements in Japan, its pure, dry See also:

air and See also:

GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite subsoil constituting See also:

SPECIAL

special advantages. It is in rail-way communication with all parts of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and wharves admit of steamers of large See also:

SIZE

size loading and discharging See also:

CARGO (Span. for " loading," from Lat. carries, car)

cargo without the aid of lighters. The See also:

AREA

area originally appropriated for a foreign settlement soon proved too restricted, and foreigners received permission to See also:

LEASE (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. laxare, to loosen)

lease lands and houses See also:

DIRECT

direct from See also:

JAPANESE

Japanese owners beyond the treaty limits, a See also:

PRIVILEGE

privilege which, together with that of See also:

BUILDING

building villas on the hills behind the town, ultimately involved some See also:

DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic complications. Kobe has a See also:

SHIPBUILDING

shipbuilding yard, and docks in its immediate neighbourhood. Hiogo has several temples of See also:

INTEREST

interest, one of which has near it a huge See also:

BRONZE

bronze statue of See also:

BUDDHA

Buddha, while by the Minatogawa, which flows into the See also:

sea between Hiogo and Kobe, a See also:

temple commemorates the spot where Kusunoki Masashige, the See also:

MIRROR (through O. Fr. mirour, mod. miroir, from a sup-posed Late Lat. miratorium, from mirari, to admire)

mirror of Japanese See also:

LOYALTY

loyalty, met his See also:

DEATH

death in See also:

BATTLE

battle in 1336.

The temple of Ikuta was erected on the site of the See also:

ancient fane built by See also:

JINGO

Jingo on her return from See also:

Korea in the 3rd century. Hiogo's See also:

ORIGINAL

original name was Bako. Its position near the entrance of the Inland Sea gave it some maritime importance from a very See also:

early See also:

period, but it did not become really prominent until the 12th century, when Kiyomori, chief of the Taira See also:

CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan, transferred the See also:

capital from See also:

KIOTO (Kyoto)

Kioto to Fukuhara, in Hiogo's immediate neighbourhood, and undertook various public See also:

WORKS

works for improving the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place. The See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of capital was very brief, but Hiogo benefited permanently from the distinction.

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