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Citation Information
C. G. MANNERHEIM
a small bazaar street on the W of the town. The town itself is a good 1/3 sq. mile in size. On the S of it there was a small miao with a tall tower. In the N between the Ch'ih-ho and the town there is. an open, flat plain. The wall is 5 I /2 fathoms high, with a crenellated parapet of baked bricks. The arches of the gateways and the parts of the wall they are let into, are of the same material. The gates on the W and E have large buttresses, the corner buttresses being smaller. Some have small clay buildings on the ramparts. The whole thing is neglected, and there is no moat. The space inside the wall was sparsely covered with dilapidated houses. There were many memorials, but they were small and ruined. The bazaar street, on which there are many shops, some fairly decent, leads from one gate to the other. Another main street runs from N to S, dividing the town into two equal parts. A couple of lanes cross it, running parallel to the bazaar street. There are no buildings or temples worth noting. Near the E gate there is a small suburb, slightly smaller than the western one. There are said to be about 30o shops and 9 sarais in the town, including the suburbs. Trade is negligible. Only 7 firms are said to have an annual turnover exceeding 6,000 lan. The population is supposed to amount to 700 »tja», excluding the owners of the shops. Calculating 3 persons per tja, this would mean scarcely 3,000 people. The district contains the following biggish villages, each with its own Shang-ja.
Counting from the town:
| WNW on the highway | Ba-li-pu .. 56 tja | 800 tan of grain yearly | |
| W of it, 25 li from the town | Tchen-hsi-pu 89 | » | 1,800 » » » » |
| Highway, 30 » » » » | Hsuen-hua-pu I o8 | » | 2,000 » » » » |
| Slightly off the road, 35 li from the town | Ting-nan-pu 98 | » | 2,000 » » » » |
| Highway, 37 li from the town | Teining-pu 92 | » | I,800 » » » » |
| » 50 » » » » | Khei-chien-pu 127 | » | 2,000 »1 näwäi 6 men |
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| Gasta i Lgarn garrison |
| » 70 » » » » | Khuatchangza 18o |
| 2,70o tan of grain yearly |
| ESE of the latter Close to the town | Luo van pu Ly dia pu kitchen gardens | 45 95 | » » | 500 1,000 | » » | » » | » » | » » |
| E of the town | Ba-li-pu .. | 64 | » | 78o | » | » | » | » |
| N of the latter Liu pa pu . |
| 45 | » | 800 | » | » | » | » |
| E of highway | Tchy ko pu | 96 | » | 1,800 | » | » | » | » |
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| N of town, 15 li | Tchi pa pu | 70 | » | 930 tan of grain yearly | ||||
| W of the latter along Khei ho | Papapu .. | 97 | » | 2,000 | » | » | » | » |
| NW » » » » » » | Tiupa pu .. | 85 | » | 2,000 | » | » | » | » |
| NW » » » » » » | Shypa pu .. | 74 | » | 1,500 | » | » | » | » |
| W » » » » » » | Tchen lu pu | 8g | » | 1,86o | » | » | » | » |
| Opposite on N bank | Shang pu .. | 96 | » | 2,070 | » | » | » | » |
| W of the latter | Hsiapu .. | 75 | » | 1,750 | » | » | » | » |
| W » » » | Hung hsi pu | 50 | » | 800 | » | » | » | » |
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