Tue old capital of China, Chang An, was built on the Wei river. This stream is the most important affluent of the Yellow River which it joins at theuniting point the three provinces, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi, near the pass so famous in history under the name Tung Kwan. The Wei river flows for upwards of three hundred miles, through loess country, from its source near Lanchow southeast and east till it is lost in the Huang-ho. All along its lower course it is on the south by the distant Chin-ling
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