Identifier: lrichardscompreh00rich (find matches)
Title: L. Richard's ... Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ... translated into English, revised and enlarged
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Richard, Louis, 1868- Kennelly, M
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Publisher: Shanghai : Tusewei press
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and where it bends at first towards theS., then takes a Northerly direction towards the frontiers of Kwei-chow -^ j^. So h\r. il is called TahUth-ho A M M- I*rext shirts the S. of Kweichow, separating that Province fromKwangsi ^ ^ for a distance of nearly IGO miles; it afterwardsflows towards the S. E., passing through the centre of KwangsiJf g and of Kwangtung M^.- ^^ ^ called Umig-shni fx yY. or Redriver till about 60 iiiiles from the boundaries of Kwangsi. Hence-forward, it is called the Si-Jciang gf tï- -^ little beyond Chao-king Fu ^ ^ Jj^, it splits into several streams, and traversingan immense delta, flows through numerous mouths into theSouth China Sea. The Northern river of this delta, which jjassesthrough Canton, is called the Chu-hUtng j^ ^, or Fearl river. Its jyrinctpal affluents are Oil tJie rigJit : The Ytth-lciang f; ^, which rises in Yunnan ^ )^. Itfollows at first a course nearly parallel to the Si-kiang g ^, CHAPTER I. THE SI-KIANG VALLEY AND THE COAST-RIVERS. 171
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172 SECTION III. THE SOUTHERN REGION. and receives a little beyond Nanning Fu ^ ^ /^ the Tao-kiang^ ^, coming from Tongking ^ :^. On the left : 1 The T.iu-kiang ;5P ti which comes from the E. of Kwei-chow -^ ;m, and joins it towards the middle of Kwangsi ^ g. 2 The Kwei-hiang ^ fXi which comes from the N. E. ofKwangsi J^ g^, and flows into it near Wuchow Fu ;j^ ^ )^. 3 The Feh-kifing 4b Dl» coming from the S. of Hunan^ j^, and joining it near the extremity of the delta. 4° The Tung-kiang ^ ^, which comes from the N. E. andflows into the delta. The volume of the Liu-kiang and of the Yuh-kiang issuperior to that of the Hung-shui, and so they are sometimestaken, one or the other, as the main stream. For the sake ofclearness, we shall call Si-kiang, the river which begins atthe Pahtah-ho, and continues as the Hung-shui and the Si-kiang.It is the longest, and extends more to the W. Its totallength is about 1,250 miles. Its course is very rapid till it reaches Siinchow Fu J^ ^ )^.Its volu

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