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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