Note 8 — Chapter L · THE USSURI AND SUNGACHA.
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The entire length of the Ussuri, between 43½° and 48½° N. Lat., is 497 miles. The upper part of the river has a rapid current, and it is swift below the confluence of the Sungacha to the Muren; but for its remaining 300 miles it has a current of two miles an hour only, which is slow compared with the three miles of the Amur, and the four miles of the Shilka. The stream, frequently divided by islands, presents no peculiar difficulties to navigation. Its scenery has a quiet English park-like beauty that never wearies, though it cannot boast the grandeur of the Amur, which combines the beauties of the Rhine and the Danube, and is, taken all in all, the finest river I have travelled.