Between the villages of Hsiao Hsin Kai and Lung Chang Kai we came to a river which, though doubtless an insignificant brook in dry weather, was then a swift and muddy river about 60 yards broad.
At Pa-U-Rong it is about 70 or 80 yards broad, and the current is very swift and strong.
Where we crossed, the river was more than 100 yards broad, but just above that point it forces its way through a narrow channel formed by some jutting rocks.
Perpendicular, sometimes overhanging rocks of green and red schist fall to the shore, which here has a shingly beach only 20 yards broad.
In some places the valley was so contracted that it was only 2 yards broad.
The breadth here is 973 yards broad, and the maximum depth only 2.
The river opposite it is confined to one bed, about 500 yards broad.
Kioukgyee is on the right bank of the river, which is here undivided by islands, and about 1200 yards broad.
Mogam is a rather pretty town, situated on the right bank of the Mogoung river, at the confluence of a river 100 yards broad, the water of which spreads out, in some places, to a considerable breadth and depth.
Woollaboom is rather a large village on the Nempyokha, which is here scarcely 40 yards broad; it is of no depth, and has not much stream.
The river at Silhet is 200 yards broad; it is muddy, and flows with a gentle current of two to three miles an hour, between banks six to twelve feet high.
This ice-bridge was 100 yards broad, and flanked by heaps of boulders, the effects of combined land and snowslips.
The Rovuma here is about 100 yards broad, and still keeps up its character of a rapid stream, with sandy banks and islands: the latter are generally occupied, as being defensible when the river is in flood.
Some 40 yards across a sort of courtyard was a moat, about 15 yards broad, over which there was a roadway with a heavy iron and wire gate, guarded by a sentry.
After getting wet to the waist going through some meadows, we came to a river 5 yards broad, which looked very deep.
Here it is upwards of 300 yards broad, banks no great height.
Here the watercourse is about 100 yards broad, in many places bergues of sand separating it into different channels.
At ten miles came to a very fine creek about 400 yards broad, in one of its branches from sixty to eighty yards; broad water completely fills the space as far as you can see southward and westward.
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