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Imports.  Exports.  Total.
Tls.  Tls.  Tls.
1864  ..  7,935,558  13,453,425  21,388,983
1874  ..  14,885,471  18,276,094  33,161,565
1884  ..  17,467,883  16,403,998  33,871,881
1894  .  .  15,915,966  23,218,827  39T34,793
1904  ..  44,364,324  63,085,050  107,449,374
1905  .  .  53,837,696  57,205,350  111,043,046

To  enumerate  the  principal  imports  would  be  to  give  a  list
of  the  principal  imports  into  China.  Among  exports
originating  in  Hankow,  and  not,  as  in  the  case  of  Kiukiang,
  tea,  first  originating  elsewhere,  the  principal  are
tea  (Tls.9,729,000),  cotton  yarn  (Tls.1,829,000),  beans
(Tls.7,089,000),  bean-cake  (Tls.868,000),  wood-oil  (from  seeds
of  Aleurites  cordata,  Tls.3,320,000),  cotton  (Tls.3,910,000),
jute  (Tls.1,704,000),  hides  (Tls.3,177,000),  pig  iron
(Tls.987,000),  rice  (Tls.2,130,000),  sesamum  seed
(Tls.3,172,900),  skins  and  furs  (Tls.2,050,000),  vegetable
tallow  (Tls.1,403,000),  tobacco  (Tls.2,184,000).  Of  the
steamers  entered  and  cleared  at  Hankow  during  1905,  a
total  of  3,715,710  tons,  50  per  cent,  was  under  the  British
flag,  17  per  cent,  under  the  Chinese,  16  per  cent,  under  the
Japanese,  and  13  per  cent,  under  the  German.
Kiangsi
The  province  of  Kiangsi,  with  an  area  estimated  at
69,500  square  miles  and  a  population  of  22,000,000,  is
mountainous  over  much  of  its  surface,  but  has  the  general
appearance  of  a  trough  trending  to  the  northern  border.
The  basin  of  the  trough  is  the  Poyang  Lake,  into  which
flow  rivers  from  the  east,  south,  and  west,  and  which  finds
its  outlet  to  the  north,  emptying  into  the  Yangtze  at  Hukow,
some  twenty  miles  below  Kiukiang.  The  Poyang  Lake
and  the  Tungting  Lake  in  Hunan  act  as  reservoirs  to  take
the  first  rush  of  flood  waters  coming  down  the  Yangtze
every  summer,  and  reduce  their  catastrophic  effects.  The