an. [ Within the city there are, generally speaking, six canals from North to South,and six canals from East to West, intersecting one another at from a quarter to half amile. There are a hundred and fifty or two hundred bridges at intervals of two orthree hundred yards ; some of these with arches,… … South-West Gate and Water-Gate of Su-chau; facsimile on half the scale from a mediaeval Map, incised on Marble, a.d. 1247. Note 3.—This statement about the abundance of rhubarb in the hills nearSu-chau is believed by the most competent authorities to be quite erroneous. Rhubarbis exported from…
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