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Show Cnul Trtrl In C'lilnK. Travel In China Is principally by canal, the greatest of which Is the Imperial Im-perial or Grand canal, connecting Canton Can-ton and Pekln Innumerable branches branch-es passing thiough countless cities, towns nnd villages connect the utmost limits ot the empire with this main artery of waterways. To overcome tho difference uf level between two canals, a peculiar and Ingeniously constructed con-structed glacis, sloping at an angle ot 15 degiees Is used, and by means of a capstan or two the neat Is drawn over until, having passed the point of equilibrium, It Is launched Into the lower canal. i'o in event the boat shipping too much water, a screen of wlckerwork Is flxed nt tho bow. The rivers and canals arc thc real highways high-ways of China, and by theso hordes of Hoxers from the Inland provinces are now Hocking to the coast towns and foreign settlements. |