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Across Asia : vol.1 |
RECORDS OF THE JOURNEY
or SSW, presumably the Njuthu or Tsingshui ho. We reached the highest point about 8 1/2-9 miles after beginning the climb. Aneroid No. t indicated 600.8. The view was especially lovely during the short time while the two river valleys lay at our feet, but later, too, it was extensive, though rather monotonous. A mountain landscape was disclosed on all sides, long ridges of löss, mostly cultivated, and separated from each other by deep valleys. About 2/3 of a mile before reaching the top we passed a large village, Ts'ao chuan pu, of 8o houses. Those we had passed through before were small. The descent along a narrow gorge between steep mountains was fairly easy, but long. A stream wound its way at the bottom. The mountains were mostly of löss, but occasionally a wall of granite was visible, having forced its way through the outer layer of earth. The road runs mostly along the bottom of the gorge or about a metre above it. A few leaf-trees grew in one or two spots at the bottom of the valley. The slopes were bare and mostly untilled. In the course of over 7 miles we only passed one small village, Ehr-shih-li-pu. Towards its mouth the valley widens slightly and the stream flows in a bed of gravel and stones, about 20 fathoms broad. At the place where it runs into the valley of the Tsingshui ho, the ruins of a fortress wall appear on a hill on the right, said to belong to the time of the Taiping rebellion. ,Just below it lies the town of Tsingshui, surrounded by a neglected ditch and wall of clay with a crenellated parapet and a few small bastions. The town is 1/2 mile from W to E and slightly less from N to S. In the W and E there are small suburbs. The distance to-day was 22-23 miles. - The district mandarin (hsien) is resident in the town. A detachment of 20 men of the Tsinchow in is quartered here. - The Rev. P. A. Vanhaute is in charge of the Roman Catholic mission station.
Tsingshui hsien (subordinated to Tsinchow Chow) in the neighbourhood of the town slightly over t,000 tja (600 tja are engaged in farming):
| tja | annual crop | cows | horses | mules donkeys sheep | |||
E Tungpapu | 85o | 7,500 tan | 250 | 200 | 100 | 450 | 3,50o | |
In the town | 600 | 5-6,000 | » | 35o | 150 | 150 | 550 | 2,000 |
T'anginpu | 75o | 6,50o | » | 35o | 200 | t 00 | 450 | 3,000 |
Peisaching | 1,000 | 8,500 | » | 55o | 25o | 200 | 550 | 3,500 |
Jejangching | 85o | 7,50o | » | 35o | 100 | 200 | 350 | 2,000 |
Sanmyngching ..., | t,000 | 8,50o | » | 55o | 35o | 35o | 450 | 6,000 |
Petjaching | 75o | 7,500 | » | 300 | 200 | 200 | 450 | 6,50o |
Pheilung ching .. | 55o | 4,500 | » | 35o | 200 | 200 | 250 | 4,500 |
S Muorsja | 300 | 2,000 | » | 100 | 85 | 100 | 200 | 1,000 |
Inanpu | 1,000 | 8,500 | » | 35o | 25o | 25o | 35o | 6,500 |
Chowchuen | 1,000 | 10,000 | » | 55o | 35o | 25o | 55o | 6,50o |
W Liupulan | 1,350 | 10,000 | » | 35o | 35o | 25o | 300 | 6,500 |
Milyangchuen | 2,000 | 18,500 | » | t ,000 | 850 | 850 | 1,000 | 10,000 |
Peituoching | 1,550 | 10,000 | » | 1,000 | 1,000 | 85o | 55o | 4,500 |
Lungsanching | 10,000 | 100,000 | » | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 4,50o | 8,500 |
N Changtjachuen | 10,000 | 100,000 | » | 3,500 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 5,500 | 7,50o |
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