MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL

See CANAL, 135° E.), which gave China the Ching dynasty; it is irregular in outline, and has an area of 363,610 sq. m.; it belongs almost entirely to basin of Sungar i a, and drains northward to Amur R., which forms N. and N. E. frontier; surface generally mountainous; climate extreme; contains three provinces, Hei-lung chief industries, agriculture, cattle rearing; rich in minerals, including gold, iron, coal; valuable forests of pine, oak, elm, walnut; silks, furs, skins exported; indigo, opium, cotton, tobaeco grown; traversed by branch of Trans-Continental Railway; came much under Ru ian influence towards end of 19th cent.; Ru ian occupation in 1900 led to Ru o-Japanese War, 1904, at close of which treaty was arranged, 1905, whereby both countries evacuated the dist., which was then restored to China. Pop. c. 15,000,000. See Map, Asta. yer, and orator; Minister of Justice and Fcc les i as tical Affairs, 1860; of Public Instruction, 1862; of Foreign Affairs, 1881-85. town, Upper Burma, on Irrawadi; founded, 1856; was capital of former kingdom of Burma; contains the royal palace; silk-weaving. Pop. 185,000.