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FAIFO

Volume 9 · 71 words · 1842 Edition

or HAIPO, a town of Coch-in-China, situated about ten miles from the sea, on a navigable river, which flows into the bay of Huron. It was at one time a place of some importance, the streets being regular, and the houses built of brick. But it was destroyed in the course of the revolutions which befell the country; and its prosperity is now only reviving. Long. 108.10. E. Lat. 15.50. N.