ABSTRACT OF PEKING GAZETTES, May 19th.—(1) Fu Jun (gf) pointed Salt Comptroller of Shantung.
(2) A Memorial from Chang Yau, Governor of Kuangsi, reporting the result of the survey of the Yellow River which he was instructed to make, and submitting for His Majesty's approval the plans of the works he propose dbo undertaken. His Majesty, ing Fu upon from thence he purposed proceeding down stream first to inspect the courses of the Yellow and T'u-hai Rivers respectively into the sea.
allowing the northern bank of the Tu-hai River, he went to Liu-chung Chen (GH LID in the Chan-hua Di or, as it is also called, Liu-ch The action of the current and the tide at this place during the last three or four years have cut away the banks till the Channel is from 500 to 600 feet wide with a varying depth of from 20 to 40 fast. 70 from Liu-chung K'ou, following the course of the river, brings one to Eh Chia Miao (Bug id another 74 to the mouth, Frum Ch'en Chia Miao downwards the river widens nel gets deeper, while 7 the mouth itself the country is uninhabited. The people and boatmen at Ch'éu Miao unanimously assured the Memori going janks of to come up to that place Inrge junks had been able to reach it.
inspecting the course of the T'uhai into the sea with the results above described, the Memorialist proceeded to carry his inspection from Ch'éu Chia Miao to Tioh-men Kuan (QEPARR), in the vicinity of which the river 1s from 2,300 to 2,400 feet broad with a varying depth of from 10 to 7 feet, 25 li below Ttiel-mou Kuan there is " large embankment on the northern side which runs from Haiao Shen Miao (rin) past Erh Ho Kai and Mu Li Tsui (GEAR) to the river's mouth. [n the main channel there is a depth of 13 to 16 feet and in- the broader 8 where the rand banks occur a bound leas wante meet the eye. These hard sand flats occur at intervals below Mu Li Tsui, and the consequence is that the drainage isimpeded at the river's mouth.
Having discovered the state of the mouth of the Yellow River as above describe, the Memorial proceeded up the river, the course of which followed from Li-chin Hien exami every section of it us he went along as far point between Chi-yang Helen and Ch'i-ho Hei ich forms the central -hai River, and into which the overflow from the branches that occur u-hai River from Helen down to a point above Liu-Char too narrow to contain the disastrous overflows to the urea sv flooded to th of the river i widest, but the are sparsely 1 that part and buted half the population has migrated, The Memorialist also travelled over the line of the Ch'i River along its north by Ch'ang-ching Hsien and mas far as Chang-then went westwards, of the river, by P'u Chou and Fan He found that an old embankment existed from a point in the Sh chang District righ away to Hua Helen in Honan, the length of which was about 260 li, Since the Yellow River changed its course there has beau pressure on th embankment, known as the Chin' (Qx3Q), but it has been never carrie away. A subsequent trend to the south: ward in the course of the river caused the construction of the embankment called the Lin Huang Ti (Bg 9EHB), but although the Chin Ti is now, comparatively speaking, ut a distance from the Yellow River, it should none the leas, in view of the une certainty of the course which that river may take, be repaired and put in proper order.
The embankments from the Grand Canal westward to and up stream both in the limits of Chihli and Shantung are all in good order, but there are two dangerous points at Sun Chin Lou (3R ge ¢g) and Chia Chuang where the geonnd is low and the pressure considerable, In the upper part of the river the channel is wide enough to hold the water in flood time and if the great embankment will only atend there is no fear of accident. from the exstorn Grand Canal down to Chin Lin (p32 6k) in Chfang-ching Helen, 4 distance ut some 230 li, as the country hilly to the southward there is no danger from overflows. There is a large embaukment from Kua Chien T'ai (ego) to north of the river, all the way to the Ch'i River, the most dangerous points slong the line of which are Huang Chia Tu the water from the Yellow Rit on both sides of the ' Peopl ment" from Ho Wang Chuang to Oh'i-tung Hsien and P'u-t'ai Hsien, The plan that suggests itself for the moment, thersfore, is to do everything to protect the further embankment on the southern b while ciding a " peopl on the northern b: Kuan on the northern thor which must be ous on the 501
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