Extract from the Journal of the North-hina Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, published at Shanghai, December, 1865.—Nores ox Liz Gzotocy or mins Great Psat, By Dr. Lanprey, SuRcroN, HLM.'s 677m Rect.
A. superficial view of the country around Shanghai, which constitutes a portion of this area (the Great Plain), cannot fail to impress with its character of extreme flatness, for, the exception of a small hill or two, barely discernible, on acleer day, in the southwestern horizon ('Tsing-poo Hills), apparently ao undulation of the surface is anywhere risible, If we ascend a Pagoda or any other high structure, we see a highly cultivated country, intersected in all directions with canals and orecke communicating with the Whangpoo, a wide and tortuous river wending its way to the Yangtze. If we travel up the 'Whangpoo, to the southward we enter series of wide creeks and shallow lakes, which at Tength conduct us to a large extent of water called the Taihoo lake, estimated at 60 miles Tong by 30 miles wide.' The Taihoo lake is Very shallow, being generally about 5 fect in
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