Li Hung-chang reports the overflowing of its banks by the Hun Ho or Yungting River. The misfortune is ascribed to the extraordinary rainfall between the ith and 17th of July. In short space of time the river rose xs much as twenty-seven feet. At the bridge near Peking, called the Lukou Ch'iao, there was more than a foot of water covering the approaches on
ant breaches occurred first but on the either side. Two comparatively unimport-17th of July, aided by a strong north-east wind, the stream drove against the south bank, at a place where an outlet had preiously been constructed. The water rose high above the top of the embankment, and in the middle of the night carried it away fora length of. more than four hundred feet. This'so much changed the course of the water that the two earlier gaps were at once left dry. The Viceroy having quoted the above remarks from the report of the Taotai in charge, goes on to say that the bed of the river has long been raised by
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.