The Archive · 1898

The Survey of the Upper Yangtze

The Kweilee arrived last Friday evening. There was on board Lieut, Hunter, from India on his way to join the Yunnan survey party under Capt. Pottinger. The gorges and rapids of the Upper. Yangtze will be care fully surveyed to see if it is possible to do away with the rapids by blasting, or if it will be necessary to build a railway past them. It is very evident that advancement is being made in the opening up of China.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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