In the Sitang river, of Burma, its fury is great, and occasions much loss of life. Burmans name 30 feet as the height to which it occasionally rises, and this may perhaps be the case in the bends of the river, where the rush has attained its full speed, before being reflected to the next bend. Even in the Hoogly at Calcutta, near the bend at Chandpal Ghat, the pointed curling wave may be seen several feet high.
The bore of the Tsien-tang river, in China, according to a Chinese proverb, is one of the three wonders of the world, the other two being the demons at Tang-chan and the thunder at Lung-chan. As in other countries, it appears generally on the 2d or 3d day after the full and change of the moon, or at what are called spring tides, and particularly in spring and autumn, about the time the sun is crossing the line. Should it so happen that strong easterly gales blow at these times, the eagre rolls along in all its grandeur, and carries everything before it. Dr. Macgowan gave an account of it at Hang-chow-fit Mr. Fortune, from a terrace in front of the Tri wave temple, saw on a sudden all traffic in the thronged mart suspended ; porters cleared the front street of overt' description of merchandise ; boatmen ceased lading and unlading their vessels, and put out into the middle of the stream ; so that a few minutes sufficed to give a deserted appearance to the busiest part of oue of the busiest zities in Asia. The centre of the river teemed with craft, from small boats to large barges, including lie gay flower boats ; loud shouting from the fleet innounced the appearance of the flood, which aimed like a glistening white cable stretched :ithwart the river at its mouth, as far clown as the :ye could reach. Its noise, compared by Chinese ioets to that of thunder, speedily drowned that if the boatmen, and as it advanced, at the rate of 15 miles an hour, it assumed the appearance of an alabaster wall, or rather of a cataract, four or five piles across, and about thirty feet high, moving Kiddy onward. Soon it reached the advanced :uard of the immense assemblage of vessels await lig its approach, all intently occupied in keeping heir prows towards the wave, which threatened to ubinergo everything afloat ; but their boats all 'aulted, as it were, to the summit with perfect afety, and when the ogre had passed about half vay among the craft, on one side they were quietly •eposing on the surface of the unruffled stream, vhilo those on the nether portion were pitching and heaving in tumultuous confusion on the flood,
.nd others were scaling with the agility of salmon he formidable cascade. This grand and exciting ccne was but of a moment's duration. The wave mud up the river in an instant, but from this mint with gradually diminishing force, size, and %locity, until it ceased to be perceptible, which Ilhinese accounts represent to be eighty miles dis ant from the city. A slight flood continued after he passage of the wave, but it soon began to ebb.
Chinese say that the rise and fall of the tide 3 sometimes forty feet at Hang-chow. The maxi num rise and fall at spring tides is probably at he mouth of the river, or upper part of the bay, where the eagre is hardly discoverable. In the lay of Fundy, where the tides rash in with .mazing velocity, there is at one place a rise of eventy feet, but there the magnificent pheno nenon in question does not appear to be known at al. It is not, therefore, where tides attain their ;reatest rapidity, or maximum rise and fall, that he wave is met with, but where a river and its !Btu/try both present a peculiar configuration.— Fortune, A Res. among the Chi. p. 316 ; Calcutta ; Arrian ; Geog. Mag. 1877; Findlay. I3ORECOLE, I3rassica oleracea, var. Scotch {ale; winter greens of England and Scotland. BORES and Boregaum are names for numerous owns of British India, many seemingly obtaining heir designation from the Hindi word Burha, neaning old. Boregaum would be old town. I3OREE. SIND. Typha elephanta. I3OREGHAT, a pass in the Western Ghats eading from Bombay to Poona, iu lat. 18° 46' 45" N., and long. 13° 23' 30" E. Its summit is 1798 feet above the &o.