Notes:

1. Hong Kong at night as seen from the Salisbury YMCA in Kowloon.
   
2. Dujiangwan is a 2300 year-old river diversion very famous in China.
   
3. Szechwan's Ta Fu (big buddha) Tzu (monastery). The Meijing River flows down from Chengdu to Lo-shan where it joins the Yangtse and when the spate comes down, a dangerous tumble of water is formed. In 713 the monk Hai T'ung built a huge Buddha in the rock at the confluence of the waters. Since building this Buddha it is said that the rush of waters enters the niche where the image is cut out and the dangerous tumble is calmed making it safe for boats. TSung poet, Su Tung-pu, is said to have studied at Ta Fu Tzu. There is a species of black fish here that legend reports derived from eating the poet's ink.
   
4. Near Guilin, the Paris of China, Lijiang river is a famous waterway with scenic views of the unusual mountains attracts many tourists.
   
5. The Lingchu Canal in Kwangsi in the Hsingan district is one of the oldest canals in the world. It was built over two thousand years ago by the First Emperor, Ch'in Shih Huang (246-210 BC) to join the Hsing River in Hunan with the Lei River in Kwangsi, a distance of 33 kilometers. As a result, boats from the Yangtse River could go down the Tungting Lake into the Hsiang River. From there they passed through the canal to the Lei River and then down to the Pearl River and the sea. The sources of the Hsiang River is in the Haiyangshan. That of the Lei River is in Miaoerhshan, part of the Yuehchang Range. From the Fenshui Pool, near Hsingan district city , one can look down and see the three streams of the Hsinag and Lei rivers and the canal. The pool is much higher than the Hsiang River which passes through it and then overflows back back to the Hsiang. There is an engineering arrangement to allow the Hsiang River waters to flow pratly up to the pool. Tablets inscribed in the Han and Ming dynasties explain when these works were introduced, but the original works also had means of accomplishing this.