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Rh Money changers having the conscience to offer 600 cash only for the most beautiful Carolus dollar ever handled&mdash;800 cash in barter for Rice being an exteme price (28).  There is a junction of two wide though shallow streams on the S.E. angle of the city, a well pebbled road from the north gate leading by a large parade ground to a long plank and trussel Bridge, which the traveller crosses to the stream's right bank&mdash;The low ground hereabout is profusely studded with mulberry trees&mdash;Firs and elms, in clumps here and there, varying the scene.

About four miles N.E. from Haou-foong is Yah-chong a small village&mdash;and Eight le further on Tow-foo, a busy little place of 200 families. The river appears deep here, and there is a good deal of traffic by bamboo rafts and boats of shallow draft;&mdash;but the average depth is but little over three feet, as found at a ferry a little further on. A short distance from Tong-foo is Tow-foo and north of that Sze-Dong&mdash;E.N.E., again being the small hamlet of Se-tche-sah. Here the river is crossed in ferry boats from the Haou-foong to the Gnan-keih, or as it is locally pronounced Ane-chee District,&mdash;the first small village on the Ane-chee side being Che-che-sah, a small place in a grove near fields of tea bushes over wheat.  Chu-ko-lo of two or three houses is N.E. about one mile from Che-che-sah&mdash;and a little further on Ho-foo-loong of similar size. Ing-ka-loong is the next village, and after that Sac-a-san, both of them exhibiting a good many tidy looking houses&mdash;the winding streams among the wood land giving a picturesque character to the route&mdash;the flat slabbed and pebbled path way being in excellent condition. From Sac-a-san to a Ding a short distance 