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142 home-supply of. The, , , and are indigenous, and to these the  have added several  and. One of the chief products is -, which is by the. The are few, comprising a land, the , a  of , several ous , and some. The suffer from the ravages of. everywhere abounds, and is supplied to the by means of. Hong-Kong acquired the of an extremely uny place at the, but it has been found that the mortality is only high in certain. It is not free from a certain which, according to Montgomery Martin, is thrown off by the   that have been  by a strong  during the. The change from the and  of  ( to ) to the refreshing  of the cool  tends to produce  of the, &c. During the – the mean  was 73°  in the shade, and the range from 56° to 84°, taking the mean readings for the s. Occasionally the  registers below 40°, and on 26th , when extreme cold was experienced,  was  to the thickness of  of an. The  was 99·24 es in  and 83·43 in. The, which in was only 5000, had increased to 21,514 in , to 37,058 in , to 123,511 in , and to 139,144 in. According to the of, there were of  and  5931, of  115,444, and of natives of , , , &c., 2623. Victoria was the residence of almost all the, and of the 83,487 (14,269 women) resided there, including a   of 12,309, while 10,507 resided in Kau-lung and other s, and 11,400 were scattered along the  in s.

1em 1em 1em 1em (undefined)  HONITON, a  and - of,  of , is pleasantly situated on a rising ground on the left  of the  and on the  and South-Western , 16  E.N.E. of. It consists of one wide about a  in length, crossed by a smaller one at right angles. Along the main there runs a small  of. The only of importance are the old , on an  about half a  from the ,  by ,  of , about , and possessing a curiously  ; the  of StPaul’s (now the  ) 