["Within The City There Are, Generally Speaking, Six Canals From North To
South, And Six Canals From East To West, Intersecting One Another At From
A Quarter To Half A Mile.
There are a hundred and fifty or two hundred
bridges at intervals of two or three hundred yards; some of these with
arches, others with stone slabs thrown across, many of which are twenty
feet in length.
The canals are from ten to fifteen feet wide and faced with
stone." (Rev. H.C. Du Bose, Chin. Rec., xix., 1888, p. 207). - H.C.]
[Illustration: South-West Gate and Water-Gate of Su-chau; facsimile on half
the scale from a mediaeval Map, incised on Marble, A.D. 1247.]
NOTE 3. - This statement about the abundance of rhubarb in the hills near
Su-chau is believed by the most competent authorities to be quite
erroneous. Rhubarb is exported from Shang-hai, but it is brought
thither from Hankau on the Upper Kiang, and Hankau receives it from the
further west. Indeed Mr. Hanbury, in a note on the subject, adds his
disbelief also that ginger is produced in Kiang-nan. And I see in
the Shang-hai trade-returns of 1865, that there is no ginger among
the exports. [Green ginger is mentioned in the Shang-hai Trade Reports for
1900 among the exports (p. 309) to the amount of 18,756 piculs; none is
mentioned at Su-chau. - H.C.]. Some one, I forget where, has suggested a
confusion with Suh-chau in Kan-suh, the great rhubarb mart, which seems
possible.
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