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All these names would not take us far from the pres.dep.of hing-chow.Aud yet, since the time of Yu, these nine branches of the Great Keang have disappeared, leaving only their names.They cannot be traced any more than "the nine Ho." All the earlier scholars agree in this account. The names of the streams, moreover, are given, and though no two enumerations agree in all the nine, about geven will be found the same in all of them.
As to the second view, that the nine Keang is another name for the P‘ang-le lake, it took its origin from an expression of Sze-ma Ts‘een in his Historical Records-"I ascended the hill of Leu, and saw where Yu separated the nineKeang" (余登庐山,观禹疏九江). After him Lew Hin aaid that the nine atreams entered into tlie P‘ang-le ; and at last, in l'an Koo's Geography of the Han dynasty,under the digtrict of Sin-yang (寻阳) inLeu-keang dep.