KITTUL, ki-tool, or KITTOOL. See FIBRE.
Iceoolcilng', a city in the province of Kiang-si, China. The name means, in Chinese, °Nine Rivers,* and the city, which is the official head of the province, is situated' on Yang-tse-kiang, a short distance above the entrance to Lake Poyang. The city which, like most Chinese cities, is walled, is, within this rampart, about five miles in circumference; but the modern town has outgrown the wall and a considerable important suburbs exists without it. The city is well drained and lighted and possesses a better police force than is usually to be met with in a Chinese city of its size. This may be due to the fact that it has a large foreign population both within the city limits and in the suburban residence por tion. Within the city are Protestant and Cath olic churches, some of them fine buildings; and the British government maintains a consulate there. The greater number of the foreign resi
dents occupy a stretch to the west of the city along the river, between the Chinese suburban quarters and the stretch of shallow lakes which lie some distance to the west of the city. The' town exports considerable of the products• gathered in •from the' surrounding neighbor hood, but the range of its •industrial and corn mercial activities does not extend far inland. The exports consist, for the most part, of rice, tea, paper, tobacco, chinaware, hemp and other agricultural products in a lesser degree, and grass-cloth; while the greater percentage of the imports consists of cotton and woolen goods, metals, provisions and leather articles. In the past a great deal of opium was sold in the city and shipped to interior points in China. Pop. about 50,000.