The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 71National Geographic Society, 1937 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 487
... Canal . In my earliest geog- raphy lesson on Asia an imaginative teacher pictured China as a vast yellow land crossed by the Grand Canal and girded by the Great Wall . Thenceforth the mention of China always brought up the vision of ...
... Canal . In my earliest geog- raphy lesson on Asia an imaginative teacher pictured China as a vast yellow land crossed by the Grand Canal and girded by the Great Wall . Thenceforth the mention of China always brought up the vision of ...
Page 497
... Canal were rapidly being modified . Here was no straight artificial trench with high banks . As in many parts of its vast length , the canal here followed the river windings and coiled dragonlike over the plain . True , there were high ...
... Canal were rapidly being modified . Here was no straight artificial trench with high banks . As in many parts of its vast length , the canal here followed the river windings and coiled dragonlike over the plain . True , there were high ...
Page 533
... Canal . However , the canal never became the economic and strategic factor that was in- tended . It was far too shallow ; the locks were too small . Its eastern and western outlets were not easily navigable at any season . And it came ...
... Canal . However , the canal never became the economic and strategic factor that was in- tended . It was far too shallow ; the locks were too small . Its eastern and western outlets were not easily navigable at any season . And it came ...
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