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measures to be
proposed.
The suggestions
made by
some
for
the removal of that
bar would involve an immense expenditure
and the result of the attempt would be problematical. In the absence
of the opinion of
a man
at
once
of
the
# scientific and
practical, who has made such works his study, my advice to the Chinese is to do nothing rather than to bury Sycee
in the mud.
Chinkiang. Kiukiang + Hankow. Vessels going up the Yangtze have
in
ordinary times but one
danger
rises, some
difficulty is experienced in
keeping the right channel, and at a few places beacons might be built with advantage,
but generally speaking the high lands on either bank form sufficient guides for the
navigation of this inland river.
From the Langshan breaking to Muhu (above Nanking)
and
an additional
eight shore lights
and a
lightship
are now being placed.
From Muhu to Kinkiang inquiries are being
made as
to whether lights would be
useful or not, and from Kiukiang
to
Hankow, about
a dozen lights are being
put up.
and that is the bank's at the Langshan
breaking. A Lightship has been kept
there for the last two
or three
years
During the Summer, when the river
#
is
high,
Ningpo.
water called
A rock covered at High the Tiger's Tail, is the only danger
at the