Note 25 — Chapter XIII · LIFE ON THE UPPER YANGTZE

Consul Bourne “risks” an estimate of the value of goods exported from Sze Chuan by this route at £3,300,000 annually, while imports coming up the rapids and passing through the Imperial Customs amounted to £1,776,586 in 1897. The freight on cotton goods from Ichang to Chungking is estimated at £3 8s. 6d. per ton, a scarcely appreciable increase in cost on every yard after a transit of 500 miles.