Citations:Yellow river

English citations of Yellow river

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• 1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 37:

  Yet, for a very long period the source of the Yellow river remained unknown to them, and comparatively modern Chinese writers have declared it impossible to ascertain its real origin. The Hwang-ho, or Yellow river, is the most celebrated river of China, though in extent it is inferior to the Yang-tsze-keang.

• 1866 October, Raphael Pumpelly, Geological Researches in China, Mongolia, and Japan: During the Years 1862-1865‎^[2], Washington City: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, page 2:

  In Northwestern China, a great range crosses the Yellow river, in its course between Shansi and Shensi, and trending N. E. by E., connects the mountain knot of Northwestern Sz'chuen with that of the Ourang daban north of the Tushïkau gate of the Great Wall. Nearly parallel to this is another range which, beginning west of Singan (fu), crosses the Yellow river, forming the Lungmun gorge, and traversing, obliquely, the centre of Shansi, gradually approaches the other range in northern Chihli.

• 1895, Herbert J. Allen, “Ssŭma Chʻien's Historical Records”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97:

  The wild tribes of the Huai brought oyster-pearls and fish, and their baskets were full of dark embroideries and pure white silken fabrics. You float along the Huai and Szŭ and so reach the Yellow river.

• 1905, “Foreign Mission Board Report”, in Annual of the Southern Baptist Convention 1905‎^[4], number 60, Nashville, Tenn.: Marshall & Bruce Company, page 149:

  Chengchow is on the Pehan (Peking-Hankow) railway, about fifteen miles south of the Yellow river, and about forty-five miles west of Kaifeng.

• 1969, Joseph Kitagawa, editor, Understanding Modern China‎^[5], Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:

  All but one of these major fluvial lowlands is alluvial and aggradational in nature. The largest by far is the North China plain, largely the product of the Yellow river, the Huang, and sometimes known as the Yellow plain.