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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KIRIN , a See also:

province of central See also:Manchuria, with a See also:capital bearing the same name. The province has an See also:area of 90,000 sq. m., and a See also:population of 6,500,000. The See also:chief towns besides the capital are Kwang-See also:cheng-tsze, 8o m. N.W. of the capital, and See also:Harbin on the Sungari See also:river. The See also:city of KIRIN is situated at the See also:foot of the Lau-Ye-See also:Ling mountains, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Sungari or Girin-ula, there 300 yds. wide, and is served by a See also:branch of the Manchurian railway. The situation is one of exceptional beauty; but the streets are narrow, irregular and indescribably filthy. The western See also:part of the See also:town is built upon a swamp and is under See also:water a See also:great part of the See also:year. The See also:dockyards are supplied with machinery from See also:Europe and are efficient.. See also:Tobacco is the See also:principal See also:article of See also:trade, the See also:kind grown in the province being greatly prized throughout the See also:Chinese See also:empire under the name of " Manchu See also:leaf." Formerly See also:ginseng was also an important See also:staple, but the See also:supply from this See also:quarter of the See also:country has been exhausted. Outside the town lies a See also:plain " thickly covered with open coffins containing the dead bodies of Chinese emigrants exposed for See also:identification and removal by their See also:friends; if no claim is made during ten years the remains are buried on the spot." Kirin was chosen by the See also:emperor K'anghi as a military See also:post during the See also:wars with the Eleuths; and it owes its Chinese name of Ch'uen-ch'ang, i.e. See also:Naval Yard, to his See also:building there the vessels for the transport of his troops. The population was estimated at 300,000 in 1812; in 1909 it was about 120,000.

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