Image below: Shameen is somewhat difficult to describe so I have included the shot below (which was not part of the records of ) to give some idea of how it was connected to Canton. It was obviously a manmade island, and must have been part of Canton but for the moat dug arround it that split it off from tthe land on teh side of the Pearl River. Shameen was the Anglo-French concession in Canton and was about a 5 by 2 city blocks in size.There were at least two bridges spanning the moat to the mainland and for reasons I haven't discovered, there were no roads on the island. There were just paved and grass walkways between the buildings and no vehicles, cars or even rickshaws, were permitted.

"Upper bund and custom steps at Shameen."

"Lower bund and ship's sampans at Shameen."

"Central Avenue - Shameen."

"Centre bund and footer ground - Shameen."

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