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42 Shing-fa of 5 families. Basket making is largely practiced in this quarter.

The course from In-gee-wei to the hamlet of Ting-yuen of 300 families is N. W.&mdash;the distance four miles, principally through a valley over a mile and a half wide. The lime stone strata hereabout has a pitch to the N.E. of 30.° Much taste is exhibited by families in this quarter in the neatness with which they dress their children, whose blue or black jackets are prettily lined at the collars with red cloth and embroidered with black or coloured silk.

Five lē North of Ting-yuen the traveller arrives at an exceedingly fine five arched Bridge built of granite, the river bed at this place being over 200 feet across. The centre arch is 31 feet span&mdash;the other arches 29 feet span&mdash;breadth 15 feet. The stream here, running from the south, unless swollen by rains, is very shallow, and only navigable by the bamboo rafts.

Turning sharply from the North to W.N.W. at four miles distant from the Bridge, the road leads over another well built three arched bridge, the stream running from west, into Wong-sin-kwo, a village of 300 families, over which on a hill, is a square five storied Brick pagoda; and N. W. by N. distant apparently 20 or 30 miles is the celebrated Mountain Teen-muh-san 天目山 (Heaven's-eye).

Two le N. W. from Wong-sin-kwo is the district City of Ling-haen, a small place; the suburbs on the N. W. side containing about as many inhabitants as the city itself, reported as having 800 families within the walls and 600 without. Ling-haen is one of the 1600 walled cities of which the Empire boasts. But walled it can hardly be called;&mdash;the boundary, of about three miles, 