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advance, 'TWENTY-ONE years ago, ie, on the '98th of February, 1876, Messrs. J. de Ryke and G. A. Esclier presented to the Consular Body a voluminous report upon the result of their survey which thad in view the improvement of the condition of the Huangpu River, Practi-j cally nothing has been done since then to carry into effect their recummendations, but the presence in Shanghai 20! Mr. de Ryke, on a short vacation from Japan, where he is in the Government service, is & fitting opportunity for drawing attention to a grave matter which is threatening the future of the port. The classification of witnesses adopted by a earned judge into simple liars d-d liars, and scientific experts" is well-known, but we can recall no instance in such an important matter as the present where a scientific gentleman after the lapse of so long a period has been able to come forward, like Mr. de Ryke, and say that the course of events has been just as he and his colleague predicted, and that had the measures they recommended been carried out their promises would have been fulfilled. But Mr. de Ryke {can do this, and having gone over familiar ground more oF less cursorily, he assures us that the condition of the Huangpa has changed vastly for the worse and that unless a complete schema of regulation is carried out Shanghai must lose its position as a port, and that within a very few years, It is not a matter of opinion, founded upon "hasty surmise, but based upon the technical surveys and documents which [are available in the office of Captain Bisbee, the Harbour Master. Cross rections of the river between the Outer Bar and the Pootung Point show an alarming accretion of solid matter in what used to be navigable channels, and with the characteristically rapid growth of such hindrances, the river is being affected most seriously over, the portion which is the key to Shanghai. When the origins! survey was drawn up it was pointed out that the influence of the flood tie, almost the only power at work, in keeping open the channel was and is declining (decrease
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