The Viceroy and the Governor at Canton state that, rain having fallen there without intermission for several days during the latter half of March, they were apprehensive that the embankments of the West and North Rivers might be in danger, and therefore sent officers to assist the local authorities in strengthening them as might be required, Contrary, however, to the of Ho-yuan. Torrents of rain fell without Boll avers wore in food at once, and their stopping from the 6th to the 9th April. Meetings.
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