The exception is the Yungting, or Hun River, and this it is which causes all the trouble in the Haiho, It has its source far back in Mongolia and, fed by thousands of tri-butanes, " and with innumerable branches, it comes down by Kalgan and Peking to the back of Tientsin, Where it forms a big delta guarded by artificial dykes, and it has been from this delta also that have start-the disastrous floods which periodically harass Tientsin, The steep edge of the Mongolian plateau, particularly in the dry seusons, very easily washes away and so the Yungting every year brings down uncountable tons of silt which empties into the Haiho, As stated before, the other swift-running rivers in ther turn do much towards washing this silt down to the sea, but, when their waters are low and sluggish on account of dry seasons, the silt accumulates in the Haiho. Should there be two or more dry summers in succession, the silting-up naturally is worse and it is be-Heved that the conditions this year are exceptionally bad because the scouring rivers were unable to clear p [away the whole of last year's occu: gulations,
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