The dotted portion shows the sand has taken place. The spit which has formed during the last 15 years. Behind it in the black area is the concession of Chinkiang. The space between the dotied line and black line marked respectively 1905 and 1920 indicates the amount of erosion which who has seen Chinkiang recently at low water, will remember the apalling desolation of the scene—broad mud flats crowded with masted junks waiting for' high water to carry them on.
This is a sad condition for those people to face who have hoped great things for Chinkiang—the making of a greatatreaty port there at the junction ofthe Kiangse-kiang and the Grand Canal. As a matter of fact, in 60 or 70 years time, the river is apt to move back again naturally to her former channel but in the meantime Chinkiang is an inland city and commercially dead. Great quantities of earth have been carried away from the northern bank across from Chinkiang. In one area of 10,000 mow, 6,480,000,000 cubic feet of earth has been torn away during 15 years through erosion and been deposit-od, mainly, in front of Chinkiang. Some of the favourite haunts of snipe sheeters on the south bank are now covered with 75 feet of water.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.