Ning-te

NOT far from Kyen-ning is Fu-ning chew ᵈ, a City of the ſecond Rank, remarkable for having Juriſdiction over two Cities of the third Order, viz. Fu-ngan hyen and Ning-te hyen. The Country where they are ſituated is of vaſt Extent, but over-run with Mountains; thoſe to the North of difficult Aſcent.

1747, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume IV, London: Thomas Astley, →OCLC, page 34

In Fukien there was a brisk circulation of the woods needed for building ships. Timber from the counties of Lo-yuan, Ning-te and Lien-chang^([sic – meaning Lien-chiang]) was made into rafts and sailed for North and South along the coasts.

1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97

Wolfe pointed out that in the outstations the big gains were in the villages and smaller towns. To make the point, he took the example of Ning-te, remarking that the city "itself presents very little encouragement. The city congregation is composed solely of converts from the surrounding villages."

1974, Ellsworth C. Carlson, The Foochow Missionaries, 1847-1880, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 101