The world: historical and actual . ds the south 150 to 250miles; westward, from 300to 500;and northward about800 miles, to the gates ofPeking and the base of the mountains over whichclimbs the great wall, the northern boundary ofChina Proper. From its southern verge, on the bayof Hangchow, to its northern limit, on the gulf ofPe-chi-li, only the bold, mountainous promontoryinterjected between the Yellow Sea and the gulf ofPe-chi-li, constituting the greater part of the prov-ince of Shantung, intervenes between this plain andthe ocean. In the interior this vast sea of verduresweeps northward pa
The world: historical and actual . ds the south 150 to 250miles; westward, from 300to 500;and northward about800 miles, to the gates ofPeking and the base of the mountains over whichclimbs the great wall, the northern boundary ofChina Proper. From its southern verge, on the bayof Hangchow, to its northern limit, on the gulf ofPe-chi-li, only the bold, mountainous promontoryinterjected between the Yellow Sea and the gulf ofPe-chi-li, constituting the greater part of the prov-ince of Shantung, intervenes between this plain andthe ocean. In the interior this vast sea of verduresweeps northward past the Shantung promontory,comes out to the gulf coast beyond it, and continuesabout a hundred miles still farther north. Prom thewest the mountain ridges and lines of foot-hillswhich make the water-shed between the tributariesof the two great water-courses of China, the Yang-tseand the Yellow rivers, project into it. From southto north, through its greatest length, runs the GrandCanal, about 800 miles in length, one of the grand-. CnrXESE junk. est achievements of man, considering the early agein which it was constructed, whether regarded as afeat of civil engineering or as a project of politicaland commercial sagacity. This whole plain, except in seasons of extremedrought, or when the Yellow river overflows itsbanks (which, like those of the lower Mississippi,are in many places higher than the surroundingcountry) and floods whole districts, is one u nbrokensea of harvest. Rice, maize, millet, mulberry, cot-ton, sugar-cane, vegetables of every variety, and or-chards, interspersed with innumerable cities, townsand hamlets, fill the entire region. Westward of this wide, extended plain lie sev-eral large, populous prov-inces of rich valleys andtable lands, finely wateredby the sources and uppertributaries of the Yang-tseand Yellow Rivers, and va-ried by hill and mountainscenery growing more andmore wild and romantic as itextends westward and south-ward, until the limits ofChina P
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