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to yield him a yearly revenue of 60,000. At present the place seems to have
fallen into the hands of an independent Chinese military tribe, which has assumed
the title of " Black Banners."
HAINAN.
THIS large island, administratively attached to the province of Kwangtung, also
belongs evidently to the same geological
Fig. 130. HAINAN STKAIT.
Scale 1 : 2,2SO,000.
formation as the mainland. The strait
to 32 Feet. 32 to 80 Feet. 80 Feet and upwards.
M Miles.
flowing between it and the adjacent peninsula, and connecting the Gulf of Tonking
with the China Sea, is only 12 miles wide, and at low water scarcely 38 feet deep
in the centre, with a current running at the rate of y or 4 miles an hour. The
main axis of the chief mountain range
si retches south-west and north-oust, con-
sequently parallel with the general orographic system of China. The central mass,
known as the \Vushih-shan, or " Five-finger Mountain," throws off five spurs, like
the 1'eloponnesiau Taygetus, whence the Chinese poets have compared the island to