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THE SHỦ KING.
PART III.
(The territory of) Yü-I was defined ; and the Weiand 3ze were made to keep their (old) channels.
Its soil was whitish and rich. Along the shore of the sea were wide tracts of salt land. Its fields were the lowest of the first class, and its contribution of revenue the highest of the second. Its articles of tribute were salt, fine cloth of dolichos fibre, productions of the sea of various kinds; with silk, hemp, lead, pine trees, and strange stones, from the valleys of Tâi. The wild people of Lài were taught tillage and pasturage, and brought in their baskets the silk from the mountain mulberry tree.
They floated along the Wăn, and so reached the Kl.
5. The sea, mount Tâi, and the Hwai were (the boundaries of) Hsü Kau?
The Hwâi and the i (rivers) were regulated. The (hills) Măng and Yü were made fit for cultivation. (The waters of) Tâ-yeh were confined (so as to form
would be still smaller than Yen Kâu, and contain the three departments of Khing-kâu, Lâi-kâu, and Têng-kâu, with the western portion of that of Ki-nan, in Shan-tung. From the text we should never suppose that it passed across the sea which washes the north and east of Shan-tung, and extended indefinitely into Liko-tung and Corla. This, however, is the view of many Chinese geographers.
1 The western boundary of Hsu Kâu, which is not given in the text, was Yü Kâu, and part of Khing Kâu. It embraced the present department of Hsu-kâu, the six districts—Thảo-yuan, Khing-ho, An-tung, Hsu-khien, Sui-ning, and Kan-yü, department of Hwâi-an, with Phei Kâu and Hải Kâu,-all in Riang-sll; the whole of Yen-kâu department, Tung-phing Kâu and the south of Phing-yin district in the department of Thai-an, the department of f-kâu, and portions of those of Ki-nan and Khing-kâu,--all in Shan-tung; with the four districts Hwai-ylan, Wa-ho, Hung, and Ling-pî, department of Făng-yang, with Sze Kâu and Hst Kâu,-all in An-hui.
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