Mekhong, is the great river of Siam. Its source In the mountains of Chiamdo is unexplored. Its course, 3000 m., is southerly to the China Sea; the last 500 m. are navigable. It carries great quantities of silt which goes to form and augment the delta through which it issues.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Meistersängers * Melanchthon, Philip