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English
Proper noun
Ya-lu
- Alternative form of Yalu.
1866 May 28, correspondant at Peking, “THE WEST COAST OF COREA.”, in The London and China Telegraph, volume VIII, number 210, →OCLC, page 284, column 1:The West Coast line is exceedingly irregular. The Province of P’ing An, starting from the mouth of the Ya-lu River, on which stands the emporium of I-chou, extends for the larger half southward, then trending eastward, forms a large estuary, the southern side of which again pushes out some distance westerly.
1882, G. W. Keeton, “Regulations for Maritime and Overland Trade between Chinese and Korean Subjects, 1882”, in The Development of Extraterritoriality in China, volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 341:Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.