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728 YANG-CHOW FU, or undefined, a in the   of, is situated on the  in 32° 21′N. and 119° 15′E. The are between three and four s in, and the s both in the  and in the  are well supplied with handsome s. The s, s, and other public  are fine and large, and there is generally a well-to-do look about the place. The flourishing of the  may be either the cause or the result of an almost  predilection shown by the people for. Unlike generally, they prefer  to, and have earned for themselves pre-eminence as a community of. Another of their characteristics is their extreme. Their observance of and s exceeds in istic display that which is commonly thought to be good enough for such occasions by their ; and their jealousy for the honour of  has on more than one occasion led to. The most of these fanatical ebullitions, so far as  are concerned, occurred in, when  first attempted to open a  there. But Yang-chow Fu possesses an earlier connexion with foreigners. over it for three s by appointment from (?–). The great ler speaks of it as “a noble ,” “which has seven and twenty other wealthy under its .... The people,” he adds, “are  and use .” They “live by  and s, for a great amount of  for s and  are made there.” The  of the  and  is estimated at about 360,000. In the value of  ed into the  amounted to about 96,956.  YANG-TSE KIANG, or. See,.  YANINA. See.  YANKTON, one of the principal of the,, and until recently its capital, is the seat of Yankton county, and is situated upon both  of the  or   at its confluence with the , and on the  and  and the  and North Western. It serves as a centre of supply and distribution for the adjacent fertile. The in  was 3431; in  this had probably increased to 5000.

1em  YARKAND, or, the chief of the principal of, is situated on the Yarkand-Daria, in 38° 25′N. and 77° 16′E. , at an of about 4100  above. The s of the Yarkand occupy the south-western corner of, and are scattered along the numerous s which issue from the steep s of the  in the west, and the  and  in the south. The of  limits it in the north, and a tract of  separates it from the  of  in the south-east. The Yarkand-Daria and its numerous tributaries, which are fed by the s of the regions, as also many s which no longer reach the main  but are lost in the  or amidst the , bring abundance of  to the ; one of them is called Zerafshan (“-strewing”), as much on account of the  it brings to the  as of the small amount of  discovered in its auriferous s. Numberless  s, some of them of considerable length, carry the  of the s to the , which occupy a broad zone of  skirting the base of the s. Higher up, in the spurs of the s, there are rich s, where large numbers of s, s, s, , and  are. On the whole, the of Yarkand is regarded as the richest of, and its  probably numbers about 200,000 inhabitants (32,000 s in ). ,, , , and various -yielding s are in the s, and the s supply abundance of , s, s, and other s. The  and the  are cultivated in the  parts of the. There is no lack of, , and in the , though only the first-named is at present. A variety of petty are carried on in the s; Yarkand is renowned for its -ware and ry. The consists of, who have almost given up the use of  and now speak , and of. The of Yarkand, which has a of about 60,000 according to Forsyth (5000 s in the, and as many in Yanghishar and the ), is very favourably situated on the  of the same, five s’ journey south-east from. It is surrounded by a thick, nearly four s long, with s in the  of , and is well ed by numberless s, which are drawn from the  and, after having  the rich s of the , lead to s in which  is collected for the. The square of Yanghishar, which was  by the, stands within four hundred  of the s of the. The ten s and s of Yarkand, although much poorer than those of or, enjoy a wide renown in the  world. There is a brisk, especially in s, , -ware, and all kinds of ed d goods. Yarkand is surrounded by a number of smaller s, the chief of which are—Yanghi-hissar, which has about 600 s and is the centre of a populous district, Tashkurgan on the, now reckoned as belonging to the ns, Posgam (1600 s), Kargatyk, at the junction of the routes leading to and (2000 s), Sanju (2000), Tagarchi, Kartchum, Besh-taryk (1800), Guma (3000), and several smaller ones.

1em  YARMOUTH, or, a and ary , , ing place, and important  station of , chiefly in , with a small portion (of the   only) in , is situated on a long and narrow  of , bounded on the west by the  , the  (formed by the  and the ), and the  of these s. It stands on the  and the  lines, 20s east of  and 122 