Note 1 — Chapter XLII · THE MIDDLE AMUR.
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This river rises in the Yablonoi range, and pursues a course of 700 miles to the south-east, receiving several affluents from the east before it flows into the main stream. At its mouth it is nearly a mile wide, and in some places 35 feet deep. Its swift, turbid, yellowish waters are no mean addition to the black waters of the Sak-hah-lin, as the natives call the Amur. For some distance below the junction the two colors are distinctly visible; but finally the black dragon swallows up his yellow neighbour, and flows on majestically towards the ocean.