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]  of the among the s which is said by the natives to be the cause of the plentiful secretion of. This belief is borne out by the fact, that in the districts where the s breed only a small quantity of is produced, and experience has therefore taught the natives the advantage of  the s in one district and producing the  in another. The region of undefined in the south of the province has been found most suitable for purposes, and it is there, therefore, on the  s, which are s with large and pointed ovate, that the  processes are carried on. At the end of the producers start each with a load of the s of the s for the district of undefined, a journey which on  occupies about a. The between the two districts is very ous, and as exposure to the  of the  would hatch the s too rapidly, the travellers journey only during the. At undefined they are eagerly bought up, and are at once put upon the. Baron von Richthofen thus describes the subsequent process:—&ldquo;When the are procured they are folded up, six or seven together, in a bag of. These bags are suspended on the s of the s. This is all the  required. After a few s the s commence coming out. They spread as a brownish over the twigs, but do not touch the. The Chinese describe them as having neither, nor , nor , nor. It is known that the is a  of. Gradually, while the is growing, the  of the s becomes encrustated with a white substance; this is the. No care whatever is required. The has no enemy, and is not even touched by. In the latter half of the  are cut off and ed in, when the  rises to the. It is then melted and poured into deep s. It cools down to a translucent and highly line substance. Ten undefined of s produce from two to three  of .&rdquo;  is another article which occupies a prominent place among the productions of undefined. It is grown very generally throughout the province, and is ed in large quantities to undefined,, undefined, undefined; and the to undefined alone is estimated at 50,000 s annually. The best is grown in the district of undefined; the next quality is said to come from Kin-lang Heen, and the third quality from undefined, all these districts being in the of undefined. The habit, which is unknown in other provinces, of smoking the  rolled up in the shape of s obtains largely in undefined. is also produced in undefined in large quantities from, which is raised from. undefined, in undefined, undefined, near undefined, undefined, and undefined, are the districts where the s are most abundant. The is raised from the  with long  tubes and  s, and is then led to large  for. In the district of undefined is struck at a depth of from 1800 to 2000, and is used for  the. and are found in many parts of the province, but the only  which is worked is of an inferior quality, and the  is  with  alone. ,, , , , , , es, &c., are among the other products of undefined. From the list of s and re-s from undefined in the Trade Returns for 1871, Baron von Richthofen has made a list of the proximate value of the s of undefined in this direction.

undefined is the principal district from which the is produced, as much as from 500 to 600 s a being ed from this one. The are owned by private, who are bound by the terms of their  to sell the  at a fixed price (8 undefined per undefined) to certain holders of a Government, who on their part are bound to pay 2 undefined per undefined into the provincial.

The province of undefined is bounded on the N. by undefined, undefined, and undefined, on the S. and E. by the sea, and on the W. by undefined. It contains an area of 79,456 square s, and is divided into nine s; and the population is estimated at about 19,174,030. Its name, which, signifies &ldquo;East of Kwang,&rdquo; is derived, according to Chinese writers, from the fact of its being to the east of the old province of undefined, in the same way that undefined derives its name from its position to the west of undefined. undefined extends for more than 600 s from E. to W., and for about 420 from N. to S. It may be described as a y region, forming part as it does of the undefined ranges. These s, speaking generally, trend in a north-east and south-westerly direction, and are divided by s of great fertility. The principal s of the province are the undefined, which has been already described; the undefined, or North, which rises in the s to the north of the province, and after a southerly course joins the undefined at undefined; the undefined, or East , which after flowing in a south-westerly direction from its source in the north-east of the province, empties itself into the estuary which separates the city of undefined from the ; and the undefined, which runs a north and south course across the eastern portion of the province, taking its rise in the s on the western frontier of undefined, and emptying itself into the in the neighbourhood of undefined. undefined is one of the most productive provinces of the. Its wealth is very considerable, and the  of the s and  is extremely fertile. The principal article of is, which is produced in the district forming the , extending from undefined to  and having its apex at undefined. The value of the and of en, especially textures which are annually ed from undefined in foreign , is estimated at about 14,000,000 s.  is also grown in many districts, and is ed annually to the amount of about 3,000,000 s; undefined, together with  s and s (from the sub- of undefined, 150 s east of undefined), , , , and   s, which are annually ed to the number of 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 to  alone, are among the other prominent articles of. is grown on the of almost all the s, and 40 per cent. of the ground under in the districts of undefined, undefined, and undefined, is occupied by  s. Out of the total s from undefined during the  1874, which amounted in value to 4,367,739,  was put down as representing 1,023,810. Three large -fields exist in the province, namely, the undefined field in the north; the undefined field distant about 30 s from undefined; and the west coast field, in the south-west. The last is by far the largest of the three, and extends over the districts of 