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Show 'ri-, ' _ eMBASS 5 Fia o of th Wal\s The i ig clean.sh data import.tsv out README | Chet yoetrhycrl ) !N flpgfl‘ i pOflth. mafi manne [lands butCO Pormg trate This Village is fitnated (as is t betwixt the Royal Chan nel, and the Yellow River, an of 2a very great length, handfom adorned wit Temples, and fair Houfes on bot fides of the Water and Ot e ab {he/m This Place has fome Priviledges elonging to it,as allo a Toll-houfe where th Toll-mafters appointed by the Emp eive Toll of all fuch Good and Veflels which pafs out the o f the Yellow River into the R el, or ou of the Royal Channel into th Yellow River 3 as alfo whic ome oqt of the Province of Honan and other part , and are carried up higher o lower Toll-mafters thewed himfelf fa One of thef more {crupulous then al] the reft for he fearche all'our Veflels, except thofe tw rs were, to fee wha wasin them ; for he could no believe that they were all lad n with Goods belonging only to the Emperour this Village, and fet Sai early in the morning, and came that ight to another Vi o into which we were et by wo great Sluces, one afte nother : The Inhabitant told us, as indeed appeared b his Village formerly flood great Caftle, which prote ted three Rivers, as th ellow River on both fide and the Royal Channel beh nd it : But th ars who made it their bufi to defiroy all Inland Place wife pulled down this Caft We lodged there aj] night e and the next day at Sun-rif ng we fet Sajl again, an came into a part of th is {carce pafiable nd muddy, that i This River is called by fom e Yellownefs of the Wate at a diftance it feemsto b 2 thick Morifh Piath, but the {wiftnefs and great forc hen youcome upon i of the Streams declare 4 ru rent hath fo much violence ning River, whofe Cqr le to Sail ag;rainfi the Strea are Towed up by a great bu umber of Bargemen In fome places this River i a mile broad, and in fom hal more, but in length it rea hes above 8co miles : T Cbmfzfe Saylors when impl yed here, make thjs Wate by flinging Allom into it ry clea which finks the Mud to t bottom. Upon the firft of Fune w fourth fmall City of the eighth Sich Oty oF HeTyiooiwin of Tanjenien s Which is th the lefi fide ofthis Yellow River, fenced ced 1. 1% 22" This we (a with a broad, {trong, Earthen lying o or Mu rt r € . Wall ,firbey $ellin form keep Whe p ,Ch ,\1sa.lf bein |