Lieutenant Watson of H.MLS. TWoodcock returned from his survey of the Rapids on Sue and this morning the TWoodcock: left to make an attempt at going up the first Rapid. From several reports lately'given by travellers up the Gorges no difficulty is expressed regarding the navigation of: the Rapids by suitably built steamers." We see in a Hongkong paper a statement by son of a ehippiog firm in' Liverpool, just Major Radcliff to this effect, and Mr. Harri-
returned to Ichang from the Upper River, is of the same belief. We hope the IVoodcock may be successful, and that sometime this year Chungking shall be visited by a deceutsized steamer, and be protected by such a well-armed boat as the TWoodcock.
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