This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...as that from which he started his morning tramp. I went by the following route:--Length of Height stage. above sea. 1st day--Anning-cheo.... 70 li.. 6,300 ft. 2nd day--Lao-ya-kwan.... 70 li.. 6,800 ft. A long, winding and physically-exhausting road took me from Sha-chiao-kai to Yin-wa-kwan, the most elevated pass between Yiin-nan-fu and Tali-fu, and continued over barren mountains, bereft of shelter, and void of vegetation and people, to Pupfing. A rough climb of an hour and a half then took me to the top of the next mountain, where roads and ruts followed a high plateau for about thirty li, and with a precipitous descent I entered the plain of Yiin-nan-i. Then over and between barren hills, passing a small lake and plain with the considerable town of Yiin-nan-hsien ten li to the right, I continued in a narrow valley and over mountains in the same uncultivated condition to Hungay, situated in a swampy valley. Having crossed this valley, another rough climb brings the traveller to the top of the next pass, Ting-chi-ling, whence the road descends, and leads by a well-cultivated valley to Chao-chow. After an easy thirty li we reached Hsiakwan, one of the Hsiakwan would be supplied by a branch line of the main railway in the Kunlong scheme advocated by Major H. R. Davies, leaving at Mi-tu, to the south of Hungay.--E. J. D. largest commercial cities in the province, lying at the foot of the most magnificent mountain range in Yiin-nan, and by the side of the most famous lake. A paved road takes one in to his destination at Talifu, where I was welcomed by Dr. and Mrs. Clark, of the China Inland Mission, and hospitably entertained for a couple of days. The roads in general from Yiin-nan-fu to Tali-fu were worse than any I have met from Chung-king...
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