Note 7 — Chapter XLII · THE MIDDLE AMUR.

The color of the Sungari is lighter than the Amur, and Mr. Collins, who tasted the water, pronounces it insipid and warm, as coming from a southern source. The force of the current is about two knots, that of the Amur here being four knots. The Sungari is a mile and one-third in breadth at the mouth. It rises on the eastern slopes of the great Khingan, or Shan-alin, or White Mountains, and, being joined by many tributaries, runs in a southerly direction, till, meeting another affluent from the mountains which border on the Corea, it turns to the north-east, and, after a course of 1,000 miles, falls into the Amur.