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Updated: May 28, 2025
So presently they fell to chaffer; for the carles brought them little bags of the river-borne gold, so that the weights and scales were at work; others had with them scrolls and tallies to tell the number of the beasts which they had to sell, and the chapmen gave them wares therefor without beholding the beasts; for they wotted that the Dalesmen lied not in chaffer.
So strong is the barrier which these sea-borne sands oppose to the river-borne ooze, that as soon as a seabank is built as the projectors of the 'Victoria County' have built them across any part of the estuary, the mud caught by it soon 'warps' the space within into firm and rich dry land.
Yet it is a port of great importance, when one considers that the handling of China's vast river-borne trade has been opened to foreign trade and residence since the Chefoo Convention was signed in 1876, that Ichang is a city of forty thousand souls, and has a gross total of imports of nearly forty millions of taels. Of Hankow, however, more is known.
Such a policy is admirably suitable to a country which possesses neither minerals nor coal , and whose wealth is mainly due to sea-or river-borne trade, to dairy farming and to horticulture. For its supply of corn and many other necessary commodities Holland has to look to other countries.
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