Show Canton a City of Canals At Canton the oldest city In southern south south- ern era China the river Is In effect canalized canalized canal canal- and the shipping Is heavy and varied The water Is deep deeD enough for ships of 1000 tons burden as ns far tar as the city but foreign boats come up UD only as far as nine miles mites to the southeast where there ore are extensive ex ox- locks docks the loading and unloading Is done by native boats bonts Vessels of deep draft lie outside the bar Forty miles below Is the Boca Tigris Mouth of ot tho the Tiger and tho tile thor r water widens Into a n wide estuary Water Water Wa Wn ter divides the old from the tho new town and surrounds the Island and the suburbs suburbs sub sub- where the Europ Europeans live so that Canton has hos an au abundance of ot picturesque pie DIe water life lite Including a 0 big houseboat population |