fat Sreattee To the first named marvel, the wot 
-Chih-kiang owes its name: that it has not been mentioned in the 
Travels ‘of Marco Polo, is to be accouited for from the eirenm- ad 
stance, that the phenomenon did not occur during.any of his vis- 
its to the city of Hang-chau: otherwise it would not have re- ~ 
mained until the present day undescribed, nor would a distin- ~~ 
guished geographer have stated, that “In the North Pacific wé 
have ne the bores of a Hooghly nor the terrific tides of a bay 
of Fur 
The ‘T'sien- -tang river, originally called Chih-kiang, talked its 4 
tise in a mountainous region where the provinces of Kiang-si, 
Fuh-kien, and Chih- kiang are long conterminous, and after pur- 
suing a northeasterly course, disembogues_ into the Hang: -chau 
Bay, a short distance below the city of that name. It is oat " 
221) miles long, flowing thore than two-thirds of its way throngh 4 
a ga ae country; the remainder, draining a low alluvial 
plain. A considerable quantity of silt is conveyed by it to the i 
sea, thus Hing the Yang-tsz’ and Yellow Rivers in extending 
this part of the continent eastward. Being broad, shallow, and — 
rapid. it is navigated with difficulty by flat bottomed vessels ‘ 
_ which seem admirably constructed for that purpose. ‘They are 
_drawn by boatmen agaiust the stream, with ropes several hundred 
eet in length attached to the topmast, those on board being en- 
‘ip poling. At Hang- chan, it is abont four miles wider a 
th. 
éonf err of a river, however, has little effect in giving rise 
to acne the canse of these phenomena must be songht for in — 
the form of its estuary, where is presented ina remarkable de- . 
greethe peculiar features necessary towa sudden elevation of the 
tidal wave,—a shallow and gradually eoteiming bay, su bject ie 
en bie at the embouchure of a river more or less oben aia. 
y= 
fields are often furrowed by thuuder as if t n oe In a temp 
consecrated to the Thunder Date the People minal pi ne a dru 1, drawn thither 
on urpo — constructed, which it is supposed he beats "doa a storm ; ° 
oid iti is Abe that s a drum covered wi ith Ga per has been s — [for one. 
covered with le: shat "the peals of thunder have been less seve ne 
— was placed on the top of a mountain, and a boy left there as sie a 
e thunderer—a sort of sacrifice to hi Shani 
* Tang-chau is not far a the Hea: piace of Confucius, a peninsula | of pers 
tung Promontory. Thither it is believed the ee of the departed re ' 
moned to judgment. in adie, Innumerable accounts are given. of phere 
ghosts, which are for a seer at liberty in that region. The “ oe lantern,” 
Jatuus, is often Sa ther 
+ Vide Johnston’s Phoysical Atlas of Natural Phenomena. 
usually val aaeae work contains a few slight errors in treating of Page terra ine 
The lofty mountain a: passing through the entire length ef > nosey Or 
the Chart of the mountain chains of Asia. A very large space in the 
