Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church, Vol. 1: China China might well be called "The Land of Two Rivers," for her whole history has been associated with and, in no small degree, moulded by the Hwang-ho or Yellow River and the Chang Kiang or Long River, generally known to us by the name applied, in China, to only the last three or four hundred miles of its course, i. e., the Yangtze Kiang. Though arising not far apart in eastern Tibet, the two rivers are unlike, both in course and character. The Hwang-ho, after flowing for five hundred miles or more in an easterly direction, takes an immense sweep to the north into Mongolia, then turns south for five hundred miles, makes a sharp bend eastwards and finally reaches the coast on the north side of the famous Shantung Peninsula, 2400 miles from its source. In times past, this erratic monster of a river has chosen at times to debouch to the south of the peninsula, and it may do so again some day; for the river performs the first two-thirds of its journey with a swift and hungry current which slows down when the plains are reached, thus causing the water to deposit the vast load of yellow mud which it carries. Consequently the bed of the river is continually rising, and, as continually, the embankments which restrain it (sometimes!) have to be raised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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