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 mouth at Wosaki; 2, The Igarasikawa, length about 8 ri, mouth at Sanjo; it discharges a good quantity of water; 3, The Kamokawa, coming from Takemura over a length of 4 ri, mouth at Kamosinden; 4, The Kuagawa, connecting the Agakawa with the Shinano mouth at Sakayamatshi.

Owing to these additions the discharge of the Shinanogawa varies naturally between the points of confluence with the different tributaries. The following itinerary may prove interesting. To facilitate comparisons I have added the corresponding figures for the Rhine at the Netherlands frontiers:—

In ordinary circumstances the water level is at Okodz 38 feet above the sea level; but the water has been known to rise there to 10 feet above this normal state.

The following are the principal places situated on the Shinano between Okodz and Niigata, beginning from upwards, we have:—

measured along the river. They have in general a poor appearance; the chief industry consists in cotton weaving.

All along the Shinanogawa rice is cultivated, also, though in a lesser degree, corn, beans, ai plants (of which a kind of blue pigment is made, used in colouring dresses,) cotton, rape-seed, etc. These latter articles are cultivated on higher parts of the ground, bordering the different rivers, while the interjacent lower parts are used as paddy-fields. Probably the higher situation of those parts