Routes to Kweiyang [貴陽], Ping Chiu [平九], Chin Ping [錦屏] and Patsai [八寨]
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Shows routes through eastern Kweichow (貴州) between Kweiyang and Chenki (辰溪), Hunan (湖南). Shows hydrology, settlements, and the locations of coal, gold, and quicksilver mines . Place names are given in non-standard romanized Chinese.
Despatch from W.H. Wilkinson, Consul-General for Yünnan and Kueichow to the Government of Burma, no. 13, 17th April 1905.
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Relates to the proposal of the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession to construct a railway from Changsha, Hunan (長沙, 湖南) to Kueiyang, Kueichow (貴陽, 貴州). Comprises a cover leaf, together with a paper 'Note on the Yuen River [沅江] and its Overland connection with Kueiyang Fu, the capital o...