Szechwan

Szechwan is a large province in West China and contains 185,000 square miles. It has Thibet to the N.W. and Yunnan to S.W., and is watered by the Yang-tse-Kiang and its tributaries. The province is generally hilly, and in the W. mountainous. Coal and iron are both found. The exports, consisting of opium, silk, salt, sugar, tobacco, hides, musk, white wax, amount to £5,000,000; and the imports, chiefly cottons and woollens, to £3,000,000. Chung-tu is the capital, but Chung-king the chief commercial town. This was opened to British trade in 1889.