jpurnCT » << narrowness of the channels through which it had; there
| >heen’forced; dor -the sadden in c r e a s e d its volume im-
«vpelfed Thwiffh? thdm£ae’c h a a |^ 4 ! a® # :;|®©vedo f?y
“ Major RennellVdbseryationsonethe-Gangek'j
J ‘1 T o av o id all possibility of exaggeration, let it be*sup-
« posed that the breadth"wf th e Yellow river w here th e
“ Embassy passed it, was only three-quarters* of a-’mile,
« the mean depth five feet, and thdvelBcity of its.coulrse
“ four miles an hour. From thence^-it folfows-pthat' in
“ every hour, there is discharged from that: ri^ e rja to th e
I Yellow sea, a volume o f water-equal to
v-solid feet, or 2,5*63,000,000 gallons of wateb,!onek%n
“ hundred times as much as appears to be furnished^by
A :&Xthe- Ganges. . - : 1
“ In order to be;able_to form some idea of the quantity
o f mud suspended in the water of the Y ellow river,: the
“ following experiment was made; a gallon and - three
“ quarters, ale measure, taken out' of ’.thdnM'ddlc ofithe
‘ K stream where it was running at the rate £ of'sev en or
“ eight miles an hour, and at a* depth of n in e feet? dep
o s i t e d a mass, o f matter, which^|’^ ^ a4w m p a |e |^ a n d
“ pressed into th e form of a brick, was equal to two solid
“ inches and a third. T h e sedimentof w hich this mass
“ consisted, was a fine loamy mud of a yellowish tinge,
“ which when dry is reducible to an impalpable pow-
“ der b y rubbing i t between the fingers. Martini ob-
“ serving the uncommon apparent muddiness of the
1 colo,4^^pmattefii^Ml^wh^to itiifge *a''f&g^olume ^ -fooiSofifWSeil;;?
e#lmateel^EellhUlI^dlSth at ^ iw ^ in tKoha'in'f'
“ jse&sdn,* to h e vone-,third o'ffwefwhm^u^ht^tr^elier&
■VhilV fig y p ^ d ik p lii^ -io ^ ^ red ftf^ ^ 'u an 'tit^ JM tiu ^ in
‘-.theiwaterssdf t h e : & W e > : ® $ :iti inu$Ilt|ianV aS
‘ ‘ IcSmposirlgjjQ't|^ftVen'tie^iof the wbl:riira^fethe?fipm^:’<s •*
“ fe|ijfc'the^moreiafe;ur'aifelSih‘awi,1 wlSa en1 *
f‘n q u a n ;tf ib ^ } i^w ^ ^ t'k k e ill© u 6 ^ ^ l^ ^ ^ ^ ^ a jn% iy e r,'
f^OiindithatvtHe ue-s$|llhi'mr> forfaied [©klj^anohurhhelMarfd
'l^twefllifeth 'part Of^the^brJgiriihb^lk.
v ; s‘,‘uAccording to theahethbd no w.folldw&dra#1 to tlfeAya-
‘Irterjof; th^Yfellow to? contain ofvmudy
“ but',a:jtwo hundredthtpaitjaiflt l^^rigihM^bulk.' M<c&n&
VY^idei-able’ portion o f theimud« mlusif h iv e 5‘ ipdieu,^^eroi
VyWasjhd’, .from the nalureuoflthefex^rtmentio ABtforcP
“ ing to thisrproportion, hov^veE^Qfm^dfsuspendfedf'iil
fothe.-waters-©tithe Yelldwauaverf sia*5quaritityvOqhaS
| S ;3>, A2>0 £>£), Qi©iO solid . inches
^ .feeto f eprth is^wafted to ftfiW ^ lin everyvhdurpOt
“ - ‘4 8fj(0;QP'!.Q4Q3every day] dm 17r, 52 <$,
“ Stipposingvthe mean- depth df: the' YellowilSea’itb -be
“ twenty fathoms, oYonerhuiadred apditwenty: fefep'.^rra
‘ ‘ it was seldom found tfrsbe somuch, th;©quarMt|?tbf d^rth
“ brought down from th ei$ffeHoy| rive®^Ivliiafd yhif .adori*
‘ E mulated ;!fbg.ethety be>}Sjuficient to fill up, ef&nijr® th l
“ surface of ;th,d|Qai?anisland] one mifeisquare. imseventy