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Show Canal Travel In China. Travel in China Is principally by canal, the greatest ot which Is the Imperial Im-perial or Grand canal, connecting Canton Can-ton and Pekln. Innumerable branches branch-es passing through countless cities, towns and villages connect the utmost limits ot the empire with this main artery of waterways. To overcome the difference of level between two canals, a peculiar and Ingeniously constructed con-structed glacis, sloping at an angle ot 45 degrees Is used, and by means of a capstan or two the beat Is drawn over until, having passod the point of equilibrium, It Is launchod Into the lower canal. To prevent tho boat shipping too much water, a screen of wlckerwork Is fixed at the bow. The rivers and canals are the real highways high-ways of China, and by these hordes of Boxers from tho Inland provinces aro now flocking to the coast towns and foreign settlements. |