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Rh and thence, still descending, trending somewhat to the southward of west for about seven lé, a Ding is arrived at, marking the boundary between the districts of and.

So utilitarian are the Chinese in all their productions, that, on viewing the marked difference in the aspect of the foliage on the approach to the Tchi-ki district, the traveller is induced to stop by the descending way to enquire into the character of the massive trees, with ferny branches of a deep olive green not unlike those of the old Yew in England. Trees of this description are cultivated in large numbers and cut into excellent planking.

The Landscape painter, for a picture here, has to exhaust his pallet. The soil, of a red brown, is in parts cut up for planting; in others covered with the yellow flowered brassica before spoken of, or with maize or sedges;&mdash;then the limner has the green of wheat, the deeper tinted tea, the gold and silver wreathed bamboo, and the dark olive of the yew tree;&mdash;the hills, in some parts, rising perpendicularly from the stream bed below, and continually inducing the lover of nature in its rugged forms, an exclamation of pleasure and surprise.  Fong-jue-ling, is the name of the pass between the boundary of the districts and a little location called Tchin-za-dow, 5 miles N.W. from the village of Shee-kong, where one or two families are employed in the manufactory of paper. From Tchin-za-dow to Ching-ka-wo, a hamlet of 40 families, the course is N.N.E. one mile. A fine open ancestral hill is to be seen here ;and from the appearance of the exteriors of the little two storied whitewashed houses, with indented window lintels and ornamented gabels, the inhabitants might reasonably be 