A great flood was recorded in Shanghai over fifty years ago, but the general level of the ground and roads was atleest two feet lower than it is now. In that flood a large quantity of cargo was damaged in godowns, and this led to the introduction of the wooden trestles ov which the cargo was piled to saigo it from the floor. The community was very small at that time, and there was a wall running along the Bund northward from Peking Road, and the late Mr. E. A. Reynolds used to relate how almost the whole community came out and sat on that wall, watching the wreckage in the river, until the tide wont down. "There was no land then where the Public Garden is, and at spring tides even down to the sixties the water used to come up to where Siemssen & Co.'s entrance gate now stands,
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