The international geography . from the Indian peninsula and Burma by a succession of lofty mountainranges and profound valleys. On the south, the boundary runs in partright across these mountains and valleys, and partly along the water-parting between the basins of the Si-kiang (West River) and the Song-koi(Red River). General Configuration.—Broadly speaking China is composed oftwo extensive low plains in the north-east, and of mountainous and hillycountry in the west and south, together with an isolated mountainouspeninsula between the Gulf of Pechili and the Yellow Sea. The twoplains differ
The international geography . from the Indian peninsula and Burma by a succession of lofty mountainranges and profound valleys. On the south, the boundary runs in partright across these mountains and valleys, and partly along the water-parting between the basins of the Si-kiang (West River) and the Song-koi(Red River). General Configuration.—Broadly speaking China is composed oftwo extensive low plains in the north-east, and of mountainous and hillycountry in the west and south, together with an isolated mountainouspeninsula between the Gulf of Pechili and the Yellow Sea. The twoplains differ very greatly in extent. The larger extends from the Gulf ofHangchou to the mountains north of Peking, a total length of about 700miles ; the greatest width, near the parallel of 32° N., being about 400miles. A large part of this plain is so low and level as to be very liable toinundation, the rivers being only with difliculty restrained within theirbanks. The most destructive of such inundations have been caused by the 521. Fig. 264—The changes oj the Hwaiig-ho ^2 2 The International Geography changes in the bed of the Hwang-ho, Chinas sorrow, which has alteredits course, or had its course altered, at least eleven times within the lasttwenty-five centuries, flowing now north, now south of the mountainouspeninsula of Shantung. The minor plain is that of the middle Yangtse and the lower Han, comprising all thelake district of the region of thegreat zigzag of the Yangtse be-tween Ichang and Kiukiang. It iscut off from the larger plain bythe comparatively low hills con-taining the water-parting betweenthe Yangtse and the in length and breadth itmeasures about 140 miles. The mountainous country inthe west and south is partly com-posed of an intricate system ofmountain chains and spurs, withnarrow intervening valleys, andpartly of more undulating country with broader valleys, the latter typepredominating in the south-east. The highland regions of the north andsouth
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