for Shipmasters Though it is primarily intended a first aid to shipmasters the-"Handbook for the guidance of shipmasters on the Ichang-Chungking section of the Yangtze River" by Capt. S. C. Plant, River Inspector, Chinese Mant Customs, has a peculiar fasciner tion for the layman.
Probably everyone in Shanghai has read something or other about this wonderful section of a most wonderful riv and has uttered a pious hope that some day he will travel that way. The story of this. huge river, of broad placid bosom in some places, and turbulent power in others, loses nothing in the tales that' pass from mouth to mouth, and seems to gain when the more level language of Capt. Plant enters upon a description. "The general features of the Yangtze, or Tachianz. as it is known to the Chinese." he says, "change abrupt-y at the town of Ichang, which situated some 1,000 miles from the sen, Froui here to Kueichow, a distance of 130 miles, the river flows through rugged' mountain defiles known as the Gorges.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.