Bund now Quarter of Mile from the Water: Useless Jetties From Our Own Correspondent, Chinkiang, Dec. 15.
Our port ly now left high and dry and it is most inconvenient to have anything to do with shipping If a person were to visit Chinkiang uow for the first time, he would almost wonder why it was called a port, for there is nothing but [a wide stretch of sand between the Bund and the water's edge. The river has so silted up that {before long there will soon be a permanent wide strip of land over a@ quarter of a mile wide running right along in front of the conces-Sion. The jetties which were destroyed by, the great typhoon jand have been repaired again are mow practically useless, since they simply un, over dry ground. The launches and passenger _burges which run up the canals all have to moor quite a considerable distance below the Customs House. At least two hulks are peacefully resting on a dry bottom, and now j to join a river steamer it is necessary to go out in a boat to make connexion
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