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THE KIAN-liU. 
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soulh of Poonah, and is equally celebrated 
or 
ftews, particularly those of Vislapour 
i;f,i 
^ it diifuses, and for the rich diamond mines 
and 
by Seriugapatam, tltc 
J'hl j ; The Cavery passes 
Mysore, forming an immensely wide Delta, or 
'"'•'Lit entering tlic sea after a course of about tiircc 
lii y ’'■“les. 
a bvo ° '^‘lormous extent of the Chinese Empire there 
^'r Krp "’f s which are rendered particularly interesting by 
'°ngth and majestic breadth. These arc the Ho- 
’ Of Yellow Piiver, and the Kian-Uu. 
THE JIOANG-HO. 
of (hiii river are two lakes, situated in the 
h ''a;,,,,. Tartarian mountains, known by the name ol 
l,;.- They lie in about the thirty-fifth degree of 
and in the nineteenth of longitude, to the 
,/h-lHYl I Pekin, and in ninety-seven degrees east of 
CdcvL ’-. .hliis prodigious river is extremely winding, 
5f.^''Ut iV*' course, puvsuing a north-east direction 
ry lorty-second degree of north latitude ; when, 
^'ly due east, it suddenly bends south to a latitude 
hll to its source, and pursues an easterly dhcc- 
,d';kiatj lost in the Yellow Sea. Its course may be 
about one thousand eight hundred Liiusli 
jh* tly, ’ ''ocorclinrr fo the embassy ot Lord Macartney,^ 
j|\t ^ ’’^d one hundred and jifty. At the distance ot 
Vl, Itn, ' miles from the sea, where ft is crossed by 
Vi ” he?,u its breadth is little more than a mile, 
’ a few feet only; but its velocity is equal 
'' ®lglit miles an hour. 
iH]. . the kian-ku. 
* lVp|. ^ 
'♦j jVmt . , “ 'O the vicinity of tlie sources of the Hoang-uo, 
•hsP '''o hundred miles further to the west, and 
a / far to the south as the latter does to the 
%’*’t>Ut a Washing the W'alls of Nankin, it enters the 
V,^yi ijMiidred miles to the south of the Hoaug-ho. 
tiTif, progress, the Kian-ku is kno^vn by 
^ five- Its course is nearly equal to that ot tiie 
■’ hose two heing considered a.s nearly, if not 
longest on foe face of the globe. Tiiey 
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