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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Fig. 19. A two-man Wheel-barrow 

 carrying a merchant and his stock 

 of Goods. 



Fig. 20. A River Junk. 



Fig. 21. A Friendly Crowd in an 

 Inland Town. 



Fig. 22. Mongolian Camels in 

 Northwestern China. 



Fig. 23. Irrigating with Water 

 pumped from a well. 



Fig. 24. A Sedan Chair swung be- 

 tween two Mules. 



Fig. 25. Getting his Initiation 

 into Farming, with Grub-hook and 

 Basket. 



Fig. 26. Coolies Fording a Moun- 

 tain River. 



the sunken portion of eastern China. Like the lower Mississippi and 

 all other rivers which are building up rather than cutting down their 

 beds, the Huang-ho is subject to frequent floods and occasional sniff- 

 ings of its channel. Its course between the mountains and the sea has 

 thus been changed more than fifteen times in the last 3,000 years. 



