"Ramify" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Captain Gill's River of Golden Sand, Colonel Yule (p. 37) writes: "Captain Gill has pointed out that, of the many branches of the river which ramify through the plain of Ch'eng-tu, no one now passes through the city at all corresponding in magnitude to that which Marco Polo describes, about 1283, as running through the midst of Sin-da-fu, 'a good half-mile wide, and very deep withal.' ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa |
