September 8.
on this subject which has recently Tae interesting. correspondence been appearing in our columns serves to bring into relief " thought that must often have been present in the mind of the ordinary layman observing the size, number and variety of the shipping that daily passes to and fro upon the Huangpu. With so great a crowd of vessels and boats of all forms and nationalities, assembled in no very wide river, the difficulties of which, arising from the constant liability of mud-banks to change position under tidal action, are beyond dispute, it is little short of marvellous that some serious accident is not an every day occurrence. That the shipping in our port does enjoy comparative immunity from the gravest disasters would appear to be due principally to the high average of skill on the part of those who navigate its waters. At the same time, as the letters that we have published indicate, and, there is reason to believe, as others entitled to speak might also testify, there is a continual. tale of minor
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