Famous Spectacle on Chientung River Shanghai, Oct.
A mythical story of a successful general hose trlumphe excited the jealousy of his sovereign, by whose order he was assassinated and his body thrown into. the Chientang River, is picturesquely related to ac~ count' for the origin of 1a famous Phenomenon which yourly. attracts hundreds of foreigners and Chinese to the shores of the Chekiang waterway—the Hangchow Bore, the Jective of the second of three special ions on the Shanghai-Hang-Railway which left North Station yesterday morning.
It is the vengeful spirit of the auurdered warlord, according (0 local Tegendy. which. from time to. time lashes the waters into headlong fury,
offered every year in temples along:
apincato which "satin "are fide the sea-wall An_ awe-inspiring ported on September 6 (seventeenth of th seventh moon of the lunar calendar) from Haining, the market town on the Shanghai-Hangchow highway which is considered -probbly the best point from which to lew the bore. When the bore passed Haining on that, day the Kuan Zau Ding, or "Bore-View Mall," on the dyke was flooded, an event of exceedingly rare occurrence in the history of Haining. Tt is a gammon fallacy, it, may "he, noted, that the Hangchow bore can be seen only some time after the. Mid-Autumn Festival, generally on the seventeenth day of the eighth moon. Though the one during the eighth moon usually attains the greatest force, actually there is a bore after the full moon every month on the Chientang.
The Hangchow Bore, according to an account: recently written by an experienced observer, is not a tidal wave, having none of the characteristic undulations of the surface. Particles of wood have been seen borne along on the crest, or Immediately behind it and' 'Keeping their' relative " positions for long distances. Several influences acting simultaneously combine to cause the bore, "Hangchow Bay asa. whole immense funnel, 60 8 wide at its entrance, and nar ing to a width of only me miles at Kanpu, 70 land. Entering the bay through narrow passes. between the islands, the ocean tide results in a piling up of the waters in the vicinity of Kanpu, During this rapid rise the water is falling above Kanpu, and two hours before the wave breaks in to a bore there isa difference of level of nine to twelve feet between Chapa and Kanpu, and a lesser difference between Haining and Kanpu, the slope of the water surface being towards Kanpu from both directions.
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