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Citation Information
TO LAN-CHOW 93
road very muddy. There was a gradual rise of
some 900 feet over the Ma-ch'ang-Kou Shan, 9910 feet, then a descent and afterwards a rise to 10,000 feet over the Nan-men Shan. Three or four big villages inhabited chiefly by Chinese were passed. The country all round was hilly, the ridge rising some 500 feet above the valleys.
T'ao-chow, 9520 feet, was a dead-alive town of
600 families.
March 8 was a bitterly cold and very gloomy
day, with a few inches of snow on the ground.
The road lay up and down over bleak bare hills.
One village was passed and there was then a steep
climb to the Shih-t'ou-kou Shan, 10,700 feet.
After this there was a descent to 9800 feet, and
then another climb to Pai-sung-kou Shan and
another descent to Pan-ch'ise. Then the road
passed down a narrow valley which joined the
broader Yang-sa-kou and crossed by a good
covered bridge to Yang-sa, a town of 55 families
situated at an elevation of 8500 feet. A good
many pheasants were seen on the march.
From here the road lay down the fairly fertile
Yang-sa valley for 6 miles, and then turned to the
left by a narrow valley to Kan-kou, a village of
80 families, at 10 miles. Then there was a rather
steep climb to the Lien-hua Shan, 10,150 feet,
at 14 miles and a gradual descent along the
hill-side and a final very steep, muddy, slippery
descent to Shan-shen-miao, 8170 feet, a village
of 17 families which was reached on March
9. Though the sun was out the weather was
bitterly cold, and there was 3 or 4 inches of
snow on the pass.
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