LRichard's ..Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ..translated into English, revised and enlarged . e : 1 to close the ship-channel stream, on the Northern or Pootung side of GoughIsland, and divert it to the junk-channel, on the Southern or Shanghai side, therebyavoiding the right-angle turn over the Inner Bar into ship-channel, so much com-plained of by navigators. 2° to construct a large training jetty at Woosung, nearly a mile in length, fromPrinces Pier to the Spit Buoy on the Outer Bar. 3° to establish other training works where needed, and especially near Gough
LRichard's ..Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ..translated into English, revised and enlarged . e : 1 to close the ship-channel stream, on the Northern or Pootung side of GoughIsland, and divert it to the junk-channel, on the Southern or Shanghai side, therebyavoiding the right-angle turn over the Inner Bar into ship-channel, so much com-plained of by navigators. 2° to construct a large training jetty at Woosung, nearly a mile in length, fromPrinces Pier to the Spit Buoy on the Outer Bar. 3° to establish other training works where needed, and especially near GoughIsland ; to bring the river to an easy curve and normal width from above the ChineseCity to Woosung, and cut away Pheasant Point and other places where widening isneceBsary. The training works are now proceeding, and extend from Kaokiao Creek to theInner Bar. A dyke has been completed from end to end of Gough Island. Largelayers of brushwood and reeds (called zinkatuhs), and bamboo cylinders (gabhioni) arelowered into ship-channel. It will thus be gradually shoaled up, while Junk-channelwill become the main channel. *. [; SHANGHAI and the Hwangpu River. * Imp. Marit. Customs : Returns of Tra;!o, 1906. Vol. III. (Wbangpoo RiverConservancy, by the Commissioner of Customs.) APPENDIX IV. APPROACHES TO SHANGHAI. • 661 The Bar of the Yangtze is gradually growing larger. Important changesare taking place in the South Channel, the main waterway to Shanghai. Animmense flat extends from the Fairy Wreck Buoy to the Fairway Bell Buoy, a distanceof about 17 miles. A new channel, named the Tungsha Channel (between TungshaBank and the S. E. Spit), began in 1904. It has now cut through the S. E. Spit, issteadily improving, and may finally become the main channel. • Imp. Marit. Customs : Returns of Trade, 1906. Vol. III. (Notes on Navigationduring 1906). APPENDIX V. 6 «)^ Work and Progress of the Imperial Post OfiSce in 1906. The development of the Imperial Post Office (I. P. O
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