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A GORGE OF THE YANGTZE RIVER 



Wliere the Yangtze River breaks through the Snow Mountain Range, a spur of the southwestern Himalayas, 

 the peaks reach an altitude of eighteen thousand feet. At this point, which is about twenty-five hundred miles 

 from the mouth, the river has cut for itself a gorge one mile in depth. This gorge probably is one of the most 

 remarkable natural sights in all China, and can be compared only with the Grand Canon of the Colorado in 

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