Amoy (Amoy`) , one of the open ports of China, on a small island in the Strait of Fukien; has one of the finest harbours in the world, and a large export and import trade; the chief exports are tea, sugar, paper, gold-leaf, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 96,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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