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Rh ten miles E. by N.&mdash;the canal runs by the villages of Tching zu&mdash;Sun-quon-deo, Chang-teng and Yat-ling-jow&mdash;the low hills around being thickly studded with Firs or Mulberry trees, over Wheat, Beans and Grassicher.&mdash;Bridges of excellent workmanship are met at various points where the streams go north or south from the principal Channel A little way beyond Yatling-jow is the Poo-dee-mew; from which Nan-Dzing or Noan-zin, and unwalled town of 40 or 50,000 inhabitants bears N.E. distant about 3 miles. Nan-Dzing is a very busy place, giving employment to many coopers of the lacquered tubs and implements sold in northern China markets, and occasionally seen in the south.  Jin-zek, another large town on the Canal's banks, is about five miles from Nan-Dzing; and half a dozen miles further on, in a North easterly direction, is Say-chee, also a place of considerable size. The next place of note, after passing Say-chee, and about Three miles east of it is Ping-bong. This is a very interesting place, the principal trade being in oil and oil cake of which there are several manufactories. By the Eastern entrance is a pretty Temple (Kwei-shin-kwok) with a shrine to Te-chang-wan the Goddess of Earth&mdash;the view from the top of the Pagoda to the southward and westward being over lagoons and streams for immense distances&mdash;Northward and eastward the country is flat for miles, and cultivated with the yellow flowered grassicher spoken of and with beans;&mdash;and in a Lake close by, there is a picturesque temple on a small islet called Jow-bing-boo-doe. Eastward runs the Canal to Shanghae. At the entrance of the temple beneath the Pagoda, the unbeliever in the virtue of Buddhism feels a strong 