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76 From Toong-haen to Koo-he-qui-show, a small hamlet in a north-easterly direction the distance is about four miles. Before reaching this hamlet, however, the traveller crosses from the Anwhui into the Chekiang province again, by the Koon-foo-kwan or Confucian pass&mdash;a gorge about sixty yards across, with a broad military causeway, thirty feet wide, having, on one side, a granite built arched gateway, through which, with determined soldiers for its maintenance, a passage could not be easily forced (26). For good distances each side of the pass the valley is narrow and capable of affording tentage accomodation for as many troops as would be requisite either in defence or assault. On the An-whuy side of the pass is a small temple dedicated to Confucius, and, rarely seen, a small gilt image of the honoured Sage, to which homage is paid as to a god.  

A short distance from Koo-hoo-qui-show is Wei-zhong a hamlet of 100 families, and some two or three miles further on is Pek-ling-wo, a little distance from Choong-ching a hamlet of 90 families. Lime stone is the formation here, the rock out of which the path way is cut being as black and glossy as coal.

Timber is transported in raft in large quantities from this region;&mdash;poles such as would be used for scaffolding, being sold at the stream's edge for as low a rate as 50 cash a pecul&mdash;say two pence per hundred weight! Salt, the article brought in 