. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. ossing this lofty Province to its utmost WesternBoundary, will seldom find his path less than fivethousand feet above the tide, and off toward the Roofof the World, uncertain Thibet, covered with perpetualsnow, are seen many peaks over ten thousand feet inheight. Yunnan City, the capital, is situated near abeautiful lake on a plain a thousand li in length. Thisgreat plateau is six thousand feet above the sea level,and from October till the end of April a cloud is seldomseen, and the s
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. ossing this lofty Province to its utmost WesternBoundary, will seldom find his path less than fivethousand feet above the tide, and off toward the Roofof the World, uncertain Thibet, covered with perpetualsnow, are seen many peaks over ten thousand feet inheight. Yunnan City, the capital, is situated near abeautiful lake on a plain a thousand li in length. Thisgreat plateau is six thousand feet above the sea level,and from October till the end of April a cloud is seldomseen, and the sun shines in glorious splendour. I wasonce fishing, on a summers day, on the Sea of old skipper who fixed the lines for me said thatstorms unexpectedly break upon this most beautifulsheet of water just as they did in the time of our a somewhat similar fashion the beautiful lake of thecapital, although but forty miles in length, is visitedby sudden cyclones. But storms occur only in thedaytime. Towards evening the boatmen weigh anchorand their craft carrying cargoes of grain sail safely. : Ixxv.
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