- PECHILI, GULF OF
- a great land-locked bay opening in the NW. of the Yellow Sea, receives the waters of the Hoang-ho, and on opposite tongues of land at the mouth of it stand Port Arthur and Wei-hai-Wei.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
PECHILI, GULF OF
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