100° Geographical Notices, 
‘Between these places the amount of local travel is immense, 
do to those of Benares. The supposed railway would soon su- 
persede these slow and painful modes of locomotion.” 
2. Recent Changes in the course of the Hwangho. 
in its new course toward the Gulf of Chili. He thus de : 3 
scribes the wonderful change which has thrown jive hundred | 
miles of sea coast between its present and its former embou- 
chure. 
point, washing the city of K’au-ching, it flows north passing 
under the walls of Ts‘au-chou-fu, as far as Fan-hien, where it 
spreads into a lagoon some thirty 7i in width. I passed neat 
this place, and should have crossed the river here but for the 
ice that had formed on the lagoon. Turning in an easter! 
direction it intersects the Grand Canal at Chang-ch‘iu-ch 
It was at Li-lan-k‘iau, a little beyond this place that I crossed 
it—it had there diverged from the canal to the distance of fit 
teen i, A stone bridge that gave name to the locality, and 
which in former years sufficed to carry passengers over a smalt 
tributary of the Ta-ts‘ing, was lying in ruins, the advent of the 
Hwang-ho having tossed it aside with little ceremony. Fro 
this point, it not only usurps the bed of the Ta-ts‘ing but ob- 
