Pei-ho, a river of North China, 350 miles long; formed by the junction of four other rivers, on the chief of which stands Pekin; has a short navigable course south-eastward to the Gulf of Pechili, where it is defended by the forts of Taku.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pegu * Peirce, Benjamin