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river. A railway bridge also spans the Main at this point. Kitzingen is still surrounded by its old walls and towers, and has an Evangelical and two See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic churches, two municipal museums, a town-See also:

hall, a See also:

GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar school, a richly endowed See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital and two old convents. Its See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries are See also:

BREWING

brewing, cask-making and the manufacture of See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement and See also:

COLOURS, MILITARY

colours. Considerable See also:

trade in See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit, See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and See also:

TIMBER

timber is carried on by boats on the Main. Kitzingen possessed a See also:

BENEDICTINE

Benedictine See also:

abbey in the 8th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and later belonged to the bishopric of Wurzburg. See F. Bernbeck, Kitzinger Chronik 745-1565 (Kitzingen, 1899).

KIU-KIANG FU, a prefecture and prefectural See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city in the See also:

province of Kiang-si, See also:

CHINA

China. The city, which is situated on the See also:

south bank of the Yangtsze-kiang, 15 M. above the point where the Kan Kiang flows into that river from the Po-yang See also:

lake, stands in 29° 42' N. and 116° 8' E. The See also:

north See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face of the city is separated from the river by only the width of a roadway, and two large lakes See also:

lie on its See also:

west and south fronts. The walls are from 5 to 6 m. in circumference, and are more than usually strong and broad. As is generally the See also:

case with old cities in China, Kiu-Kiang has repeatedly changed its name. Under the Tsin See also:

DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty (A.D. 265-420), it was known as See also:

Sin-Yang, under the Liang dynasty (502-557) as Kiang Chow, under the Suy dynasty (589-618) as Kiu-Kiang, under the Sung dynasty (960-1127) as Ting-Kiang, and under the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) it assumed the name it at See also:

PRESENT

present bears. Kiu-Kiang has played its See also:

PART

part in the See also:

HISTORY

history of the See also:

EMPIRE

empire, and has been repeatedly besieged and sometimes taken, the last See also:

time being in See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1853, when the T'ai-p'See also:

ing rebels gained See also:

possession of the city. After their manner they looted and utterly destroyed it, leaving only the remains of a single See also:

street to represent the once flourishing town. The position of Kiu-Kiang on the Yangtsze-kiang and its proximity to the channels of See also:

INTERNAL

internal communication through the Po-yang lake, more especially to those leading to the See also:

green-See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea-producing districts of the provinces of Kiang-si and Ngan-hui, induced See also:

Lord See also:

ELGIN

Elgin to choose it as one of the treaty ports to be opened under the terms of his treaty (1861). Unfortunately, however, it stands above instead of below the outlet of the Po-yang lake, and this has proved to be a decided See also:

DRAWBACK

drawback to its success as a commerical See also:

PORT

port. The immediate effect of opening the town to See also:

FOREIGN

foreign trade was to raise the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in one See also:

YEAR

year from ro,000 to 40,000.

The population in 1908, exclusive of foreigners, was officially estimated at 36,000. The foreign See also:

settlement extends westward from the city, along the bank of the Yangtsze-kiang, and is bounded on its extreme west by the P'un river, which there runs into the Yangtsze. The bund, which is 500 yards long, was erected by the foreign community. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good, and though hot in the summer months is invariably See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold and bracing in the See also:

winter. According to the customs returns the value of thetrade of the port amounted in 1902 to £2,8J4,704, and in 1904 to £3,489,816, of which £11726,506 were imports and £1,763,310 exports. In 1904 322,266 lb. of See also:

OPIUM (Gr. amov, dim. from Orbs, juice)

opium were imported.

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