In such an event, these officers believed, the Yellow River would seek a new course, probably south of its ancient bed which had an outlet at Haichow.
Lake Hungtze, lying halfway between the Tientsin-Pukow railway and the sea was believed to be likely to become part of the Yellow River should a major flood occur.
The possibility that the Yangtze and the Yellow River would be joined by a vast lake was also fore-Seen by engineers who pointed oni that, once loosened, the flood water would flow into the Kialu Rive: which in turn would empty into the Hwai River to seek an outlet in the Hungtze and Kaoyu lakes in northern Kiangsu, In this eventuality, the major portions of Honan, Anhwei and Honan provinces would be under water, The Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers were connected by a body of it water in the thirteenth, fourteenth, ud nineteenth centuries,
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