 Yang-tz', nearly a mile in •width ; from the west, and skirting the northern edge of the range of hills already mentioned, comes the river Han, narrow and canal-like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country ; and to the northwest...  Sketches in and Around Shanghai Etc - Page 155by J. D. Clark - 1894 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Wright Blakiston - China - 1862 - 436 pages
...narrow and canal-like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country ; and to the north-west and north is an extensive treeless...its surface are without exception raised on mounds, preF bably artificial works of a now distant age. A stream or two traverse its farther part and flow... | |
 | Thomas Wright Blakiston - China - 1862 - 456 pages
...that the scattered hamlets which dot its surface are without exception raised on mounds, preF bably artificial works of a now distant age. A stream or...traverse its farther part and flow into the main river. This flat is completely covered during summer, and in fact the same may be said of all the low land... | |
 | William Frederick Mayers, Charles King - China - 1867 - 826 pages
...narrow and canal-like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country ; and to the northwest and north is an extensive treeless flat,...traverse its farther part and flow into the main river. This flat is completely covered during summer, and in fact the same may be said of all the low land... | |
 | William Frederick Mayers, Charles King - China - 1867 - 852 pages
...narrow and canal-like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country ; and to the northwest and north is an extensive treeless flat,...two traverse its farther part and flow into the main liver. This flat is completely covered during summer, and in fact the same may be said of all the low... | |
 | William Frederick Mayers - 1867 - 852 pages
...one of the highways of the country ; and to the northwest and north is an extensive treeless (lat, so little elevated above the river that the scattered...traverse its farther part and flow into the main river. This flat is completely covered during summer, and in fact the same may be said of all the low land... | |
 | D. Warres Smith - Colonies - 1900 - 420 pages
...narrow and canal-like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country ; and to the north-west and north is an extensive treeless...main river. Carrying his eye to the right bank of the Yangtsze one sees enormous lakes and lagoons both to the north-west and south-east sides of the... | |
 | Asia - 1899 - 1396 pages
...narrow and canal like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country; and to the north-west and north is an extensive treeless...main river. Carrying his eye to the right bank of the Yangtsze one sees enormous lakes and lagoons both to the north-west and south-east sides of the... | |
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