. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . % famous forits garden cultivation. The hillsides have been care-fully terraced, so that cultivation is carried on ata height of many thousand feet above Sechwan is noted for its agriculture, it hasalso very extensive coal and iron deposits, whilst themore precious metals and copper are known to existin considerable quantities along the margin of theTibet plateau. Sechwan is somewhat difficult of accessowing to its build. The easiest entry is by way ofthe Yangtse, and it is on its banks that the port
. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . % famous forits garden cultivation. The hillsides have been care-fully terraced, so that cultivation is carried on ata height of many thousand feet above Sechwan is noted for its agriculture, it hasalso very extensive coal and iron deposits, whilst themore precious metals and copper are known to existin considerable quantities along the margin of theTibet plateau. Sechwan is somewhat difficult of accessowing to its build. The easiest entry is by way ofthe Yangtse, and it is on its banks that the port issituated. This is CJiungking^ which suffers from thedisadvantage that the great gorges and rapids of theYangtse, which interrupt the navigation of the riverfor some four hundred miles, are between it andIchang. Below the latter city the river is navigable 340 ASIA for river boats and small ocean vessels to Hankow, andfrom there to the mouth for larger ocean vessels. Between Ichang and Hankow is the lake-studdedlowland region, known as the Plain of the Middle. Densely peopled - over ^00per sq mileLess densely peopled-250 to^OOper sq mile Fig. 91.—Map showing the most densely peopled parts of China. Vani^tse. The most important tributary in this sectionis the Han, whose valley gives an easy route to thenorth-west. At its confluence with the main river standsthe triple city of Hankow-Wuchang-Hanyang, somesi-K hundred miles from the mouth. Of these,Hankow^ the second largest city in China, is of greatest CHINA PR0IM:R 341 importance. It is a centre for rice and tea, whilst inrecent )ears extensive ironworks have been built atHanyanc;, across the Han from Hankow. There arealso other ironworks in the neighbourhood, and consider-able quantities of pig-iron are now exported to Japan,and even to the United States. Note the position ofHankow, between the points at which the rivers drain-ing the large lakes of Tungting and Poyang enter theYangtsc. Since the Yangtse is fed mainly by me
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