Your correspondent, travelling across the ngtee Like recently beguiled the time old man About 60) years ago, dur Dynasty, titre win' be lake' where the broad 8 of the Liangtze now spread. A flourishing hsien city stood in the centre of " populous country. 'The city. was noted fr its wickedness, and amid' the wicked population dwelt one righteous woman, a strict vegetarian, and a follower of all good works. In a vision of the nigh, it was revealed to her thit the ci and neighbourhood would be destroyed by water. avd the sign given was that when the stone liens in front of the yamen wept tears of blood, then destrac-Yien was near at hand. Like Jonah, at Ninevelt, the woman, knowe to-day simply as Niangtze, walked up and down the streets of the city, warving all of the coming calamity. She wxs laughed at "ud tooked upon as mad by the carelece people. A pork butcher, in the town, a noted wag took soviet pi and the eyes of the stone lion Niangtze caw. the blo d, she teo' it for thi given sign, and fled -way from the ci said the jeers and laughter of the habitants. "Before many hours lad passed the face of the eky darkened, a mighty earthquake shook the entiitry side, there was' great: subsidence of the earth's surface, and the waters of the river flowed into the hollow, burying the city and villages out of sight. But the spot of ground on which the good woman stood; after escaping from the doomed city, remained at its normal level, and it stands an island in the midst of the lake, called Niavgtze, a place at which the boats anchor up at night, or to which they fly for shelter from the storms that swe the lake, and are saved to-day bec! one good woman, helped by the Tong ago. On asking the old man any proof of his story he replied that oe clear days traces of the buried city may be seen, and, occasionally a fisherman ing his net hauls up some household ater nsil, or relic of bygone days.
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