Photograph by C. D. Jameson 



one; op the: sluices of the: grand canal 



Notice the fisherman with his large net in the foreground. 



Photograph by C. K. Edmunds 

 Till'. MAN ON TIIK TOW PATH AND AT THE} OAR IS THE CHlEP DEPENDENCE OP THE 

 CHINESE JUNK WHEN THE WIND BLOWS UNPROPITIOUSLY 

 ON CHINESE RIVERS 



The Grand Canal, China's great artificial inland waterway, was begun in the sixth century 

 before the Christian era, but was not completed until the end of the thirteenth century. 



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