Fêng-Hsiang Hsia. (The Wind Box Gorge.). Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View along the gorge towards cliffs and distant peaks: ‘The Wind Box is the last of the great gorges. The western entrance is a fitting climax to the magnificent scenery that has its beginning at Ichang and ends here at the foot of the ci...
T’eng-Ying Hsia. (Lamp Light Gorge.). Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View looking down onto the river from the cliffs above the gorge, with boats under way on the water: ‘This is the upper portion of the 14-mile stretch usually known as the Ichang Gorge and is immediately above the Yellow Cat Gorge, which be...
The Lamp Light Gorge. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View along the gorge, with a fishing boat moored in the foreground: ‘The upper section of the gorge has all the appearance of an inland lake, the mountain in front threatening the traveller with a cul-de-sac. The outlet is invisible until...
Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. ‘Halfway through the long Wushan Gorge is the boundary between Hupeh and Szechuan, marked by a narrow glen on the right bank of Pei Shih. The picture shows a corner of Wushan, the first city over the border. It is built on a hill facing the...
Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View along the gorge: ‘Situated at the eastern entrance to the Ox Liver Gorge, the Kung-Ling T’an is accounted one of the most dangerous rapids at low water season. In the centre is seen the great rock which bisects the channel, leaving onl...
The Rock-Bound Mouth of the Niu-Kan, Ma-Fei Hsia. (Ox Liver, Horse’s Lung Gorge. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View along the gorge towards mountains on the horizon: ‘At the head of the Zigzag Reaches is the Niu-kan, Ma-fei Hsia, or Ox-liver Gorge, the magnificent portals of which are called Tong-ling Hsia, or Pierced Mountain Gorge. At their foot...