Kalgan, a Chinese town, 110 miles NW. of Peking, built opposite the passage through the Great Wall, is one of the chief emporiums of the Chinese tea trade with Mongolia and Siberia, some 21,500,000 lb. being exported from here annually. Textiles and smoked provisions are imported from Siberia and Russia. Pop. 70,000.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 388
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