The great river ; the story of a voyage on the Yangtze Kiang . over the south-eastern gate, is the best cared for in the city, becauseof the constant offerings made to him by the soldierswho follow his warlike, if not his honourable,example. The history of Shasi records many disastrousfloods. Records of the days of the Emperor ChienLung tell of a great flood in 1788, when the prefectureof Kingchow was inundated as a result of a break inthe embankment of the Yangtze. Many Uves werelost and much property destroyed. It was such agreat calamity that stories of it are still current amongthe people.
The great river ; the story of a voyage on the Yangtze Kiang . over the south-eastern gate, is the best cared for in the city, becauseof the constant offerings made to him by the soldierswho follow his warlike, if not his honourable,example. The history of Shasi records many disastrousfloods. Records of the days of the Emperor ChienLung tell of a great flood in 1788, when the prefectureof Kingchow was inundated as a result of a break inthe embankment of the Yangtze. Many Uves werelost and much property destroyed. It was such agreat calamity that stories of it are still current amongthe people. Later histories of Shasi floods aremonotonous in their similarity and regularity. But thedanger of a great disaster, surpassing all previous ones,seems imminent. A dyke, 180 miles long, runs from Shasi nearly toHankow. This dyke protects country which is lowerthan the Yangtze by as much as 20 feet at Shasi andwhich slopes steadily downward toward enough, the land which was used to buildthis dyke was taken from inland rather than from the G. p^
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