Show ONE OF NATURES PHENOMENA A annual visitation at china twice a year at each equinox the famous tides of the tsien tang aher that floes from the borders of and to hang chow lay attain their greatest height and a bore of sometimes over 40 feet in height sweeps irresistibly up its ahal low and funnel estuary often producing tremendous to the surrounding country hence ita name money dilie from alie amount expended in successive centuries on its embankments bank ments it is seen at its best at hang citow the city not far from its mouth tw eh e or 11 minutes before it ia visible a dull distant loar is heard momentarily until the wall of muddy water tall as the bulwarks bulwa of the biggest liner as overwhelming as a glacier sweeps into sight round the bend a mile away ot a boat is to be seen on alie lately crowded riar all are hauled upon to the huge and moored fore ind aft with a doen rattan cables for none but ocean going bt camers could stem the current and aeu they would need skillful navigation As the ogre nears the roar becomes deafening as a storm at sea drowning the excited shouts of alie thousands w ho line the w alls until finally it foams past in turbid majesty hurrying tu the bicart of china the celestials celesti als have tried to deal with it in every vvan human and superhuman |