Show Canton a City of Canals At Canton the oldest city In southern southern southern south south- ern China Chinn the river is is 18 In effect canalized canalized canal canal- Ize and the shipping is heavy and varied The water Is deep enough for tor ships of 1000 tons burden as far tar as the city but foreign boats come up uv only as far as nine miles t to the southeast where there arc are extensive extensive ex ex- docks Here the loading and unloading Is done by native boats bonts Vessels of deep draft lie He outside the bar Forty Forty- miles below Is the Boca Boen Tigris Mouth of ot the Tiger and the water widens Into a wide estuary Water Water Water Wa Wa- ter divides the old from the new town and surrounds the Island and the suburbs suburbs sub sub- where here the Europeans live so that Canton has an abundance of of- Vie pic picturesque picturesque pic water life lite Including a big houseboat population |