RIVER CHANGES ITS BED.
One of the strangest rivers in the world is the Hwang-ho, the great Yellow River of Northern China. Besides being too fast for navigation it is a danger to the people, for it has the habit of changing its bed. About 80 years ago it turned suddenly to the north-east and started to flow into the Gulf of Pechili instead of into the China Sea, its old mouth being left 500 miles to the south. It is said to have shifted its course nine times in 2500 years. It has been nick-named China's Sorrow.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 11
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98RIVER CHANGES ITS BED. Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 11
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