LRichard's ..Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ..translated into English, revised and enlarged . felt at Shanghai 2 hours after it has passed Crutzlaft. It is subjectto diurnal inequality,-which causes the day tides to be the highest in Winter, the mor-ning tides in Spring, the night tides in Summer, and the evening tides in Autumn. Woosun^ Inner andOuter Bart». — Two barsprevent large steamers ascen-ding as far as Shanghai. Thefirst or Outer Bar, a littlebelow the mouth of the Hwaug-poo, is rapidly silting up, andhad in 1897, 20 feet of waterover it at low-water o
LRichard's ..Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ..translated into English, revised and enlarged . felt at Shanghai 2 hours after it has passed Crutzlaft. It is subjectto diurnal inequality,-which causes the day tides to be the highest in Winter, the mor-ning tides in Spring, the night tides in Summer, and the evening tides in Autumn. Woosun^ Inner andOuter Bart». — Two barsprevent large steamers ascen-ding as far as Shanghai. Thefirst or Outer Bar, a littlebelow the mouth of the Hwaug-poo, is rapidly silting up, andhad in 1897, 20 feet of waterover it at low-water of springs,but at the present, it has scar-cely more than 13. The secondor Inner Bar lies witliin and alittle up the river itself. It un-dergoes less change and tendsrather to improve. A periodicalsilt of from 2 to 4 feet generallysets in upon it in May andends iu October, after whichit again scours awaj. Attemptsat dredging having provedineffective, the river aband-oned to itself has formed anew island, called Goughisland. The Junk channelto the E. of it, has l)iit a depthof from 10 to Ki foet atlow-water of SHANGHAI and the Hwangpoo River. THE COAST OF KIANG8U. 2Ô5 HEIGHT OP WATER oil the Outer aud Inner Woosnn^ Bars at low water of the syzjgies. (According to W. F. Tyler. Coast Inspector I. M. C). N 18 ft N \ \^ 16 ft ^ -s x_ \ 14 ft \_ ^ A 12 ft J\ \ /I f /y r^\ / J I / /^ 1 1 10 ft . / \ i X 1/ / \ \ , V V [f 8 ft. V \ C 5 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 The lower tracing exhibits the changes on the Inner Bar;the upper tracing those on the Outer Bar. 266 SECTION IV. THE COAST-LINE OF CHINA. Shangliat _h ff$. — [see also Sect. II. Ch. IV. 160-162). Historical sketch. — If we believe old records,Shanghai, as its name means out,or up to the sea, was formerlynearer the sea than it is at present, but little by little, sands andalluvial deposits accumulated to the E. of the port, and formedthere the low flat plain nowadays called Pootung J^ ;^, or Easto
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