HOEI-TCHEOU, the most southern city of the province of Kiang-nan in China, and one of the richest of the empire. The people are economical and temperate, but they are active and enterprising in trade; they boast of their tea, varnish, and engravings, which are indeed the most esteemed in China. It has dependent upon it six cities of the third class; the mountains which surround this canton contain gold, silver, and copper mines.