The Huang-ho, starting from the high plateaux of Tibet where its sources are nob far from those of the Yangtze, ru ing the pasturages of the Lakes of the through a mountainous region after leay-Stars, traverses Kansu, and penetrates into Mongolia, where its bed has been frequently shifted in the sandy deserts. Carrying away silt from there, it goes along the provinees of Shansi and Shensp receives the Weiho, whose muddy water, mix with its own, and then takes as easterly direction in Honan, picking un in its course the unstable' soil of the banks and the abrupt cliffs of the ' Yellow land." Tt brings with it enormous masses the water eats below and causes the fall of the whole vertical wall which overhangs bed. Ty la there, it is from. the in the river is derived; it la there. that region that the great ssu] of silt
the remedy must: be first applied, since it is there that the cause resides of the evil from [which such a vast population suffers. The silt carried off is floated along by the water; the bod of the river is "alsod by the heavier portion of the matter while ti jo rear carried farther along is wherever the speed of the water lently-slight for it to be no longer held in suspension. Continuing its progress the current deviates in more senses than one, attacks everywhere its friable banks, and continually renews its load of ails which it deposits from stage to stage, raising the banks as well as the bottom, eating away the embankments, and endangering the whole country it traverses.
As far as the neighbourhood of Yungtze the valley of the river is confined between mountains. Starting from there it widens out; and spreads itself in a vast space in which alas! the Huang-ho has too often shifted its position. "These changes of bed have been the cause of immense disastera through the long process of the centuries; they have caused the death of millions of human beings by burying them under the waters, or making them perish of famine. hie river moves sbout in the immense space which goes from the Yangtze to the Peiho, as if radiating round a centre situated near Kaifungfu. Its movement covers a space of more than 1,500 li, Gscillating from one: side to the. other of Shsntung's masa of thountains,
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