... at the full and the change of the moon, the attractions of sun and moon combine, and the water rushes in with aroar like that of a tidal wave. The bore of Hangchow is not surpassed by that of the ... the Han and the Yang-tse, the Tripolis of China, a tripod of empire, the hub of the universe, as the Chinese fondly regard it. The other two cities are Wuchang, the capital [Page 46] of the viceroyalty, ... spring from the bosom of the river. They are the life-belt of the Island of Tsungming which six centuries ago rose like the fabled Delos from the surface of the turbid waters. Accepted as the river's...