Meaning of I-ch'ang | Babel Free

Examples

“The Yang-tzŭ-chiang (揚子江) is about 3,300 miles long ; it is navigable for large steamers for 600 miles to Hankow (漢口) and for light-draught steamers 360 miles further to I-chʻang (宜昌). Above I-chʻang there are rapid which are difficult to pass.”

The Chinese Empire

“River streamers soon connected Nanking with Hankow, four hundred miles beyond, and finally, small steamboats sailed triumphantly up stream to I-ch'ang. Beyond I-ch'ang were the fierce rapids of the upper Yang-tzŭ, where foreign enterprise gave way before simple Chinese ingenuity.”

“Just below Hsi-ling Gorge lies the small city of I-ch'ang, the first river port beyond the gorges.”

“Yangtzee^([sic – meaning Yangtze]) River Gorges, People's Republic of China. These gorges are most notable between I-chʻang and Feng-chieh, with cliffs 1,000 feet (320 meters) high.”

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