From what could be learned of Chinkiang's more remote history, it seems to have been one of the the cities Uterally "builded upon sani Now Golden Hill looms close to the city; once it was on the other side of the river. Marco Polo has written of it s0, Once the site of the present concession was in the middle of the Yangtze and the British fleet which sailed up the river in 1824 anchored over the ground of the present railway station, This changing of the bank of the Yangtze, while it has helped to" ruin the port, may now save it again. It has just been reported that the bank of silt, which has turned the British Concession from 'a place where shipping hulks were moored into an inland block, showing signs of washing out again, A split has been found at the east end and should the split deepen in the next few years, Chinkiang may' find itself once again on the upgrade,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.