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Show Canton a City of Canals. At Canton, the oldest city In southern south-ern China, the river Is, In effect, canalized, canal-ized, and the shipping is heavy and varied. The water is deep enough for ships of 1.000 Ions burden as far us the city, hut foreign boats come up only as far as Whampou. nine miles to the southenst, where there ate extensive ex-tensive docks. Here the loading and unloading Is done by native boats. Vessels of deep draft lie outside the bar. Forty miles below Is the Boca Tigris (Mouth of the Tiger), and the water widens Into a wide estuary. Water Wa-ter divides the old from the new town and surrounds the Island and the suburbs, sub-urbs, where the Europeans live, so that Canton has an abundance of picturesque pic-turesque water life, Including a big houseboat population. |