《徐霞客游记·溯江纪源 & 江源考》
等到越过淮河涉过汴河，然后才看到黄河的水流如同衣带，水面宽的地方不到长江的三分之一，难道长江这样大，它所流入的水流，还赶不上黄河吗？往北经过了三秦地区，南边穷尽了五岭，向西到了石门关、金沙江，然后了解到中国流入黄河的水流是五个省，流入长江的水流是十一个省。
入江之水为省十一。西北自陕西、四川、河南、湖广、南直，西南自云南、贵州、广西、广东、福建、浙江。
After crossing the Huai River and Bian River, then you can see the flow of the Yellow River looking like a sash, the widest part of it is less than one third of that of the Yangtze River, could it be that the water flow of the mighty Yangtze River is smaller than that of the Yellow River? After travelling north past the Three Qin region, reaching the Five Ridges in the south, the Shipmenguan Pass and Jinsha River in the west, I came to understand that the flow of the Yellow River comes from five provinces and that of the Yangtze River comes from eleven provinces.