Our (henyosn correspondent sends the following picturesque note on the Black. River:—Having crossed Black River on the occasion of s recent journey, new points, I more than ever impressed by the value of that great stream. I have travelled along it by boat for fifteen miles at one part, and have crossed it at other places when the water was low and clear; but I have nowhere seen the bottom of it or been able to reach bottom with the terious way to join the great Yangtze.
only the rapid could be improved or avoided, it would be a great waterway right into the heart of Kueichow. Bat craft, except rafts of timber and bamboo, ever attempts to pass the ra-bide. Boats must wait for high water carry them autely over tocks and UN
71 rapid; then they rao at a fearful rate, leaving Szenanfa in the moroiog and reaching Foochow, 1,100 li away, ina short day, or ey a
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