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Excerpt from The People of China: Their Country, History, Life, Ideas, and Relations With the Foreigner
Loess and Rivers - All China, like Gaul, is divided into three parts. They are - Mountainous Country (say, half), Hilly Country, and the Great Plain (about 700 miles in length and from 150 miles to 500 miles in breadth, stretching between Peking and the mouth of the Yangtsze, an area as great and as densely populated as the plain of Bengal drained by the Ganges). A quarter of a million square miles Of the country are covered with loess, a strange fine, friable, yellow earth (hence, possibly, the Yellow often reaching to a great depth, and so rich as to need little or no manure. All precious stones and minerals are believed to be found within the Empire - part of the Yangtsze is called the River of Golden Sand, and coal, which exists in every Province, usually near iron, is so plentiful in Shansi alone that the world's supply could be taken from it for 3000 years No country can compare with the land of great rivers (and many canals and ferries) for natural facilities for inland naviga tion 31 it has been said, indeed, that there are more boats in China than in all the rest of the earth.
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