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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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robust, and as the rainfall is adequate and
the soil unsurpassed in fertility, the crops in
the cultivated plains, and the forests in more
mountainous parts are magnificent. Moreover,
Manchuria is spared the one great drawback
to most countries in which the winter tempera-
ture falls as low as 30° or 40° below zero
Fahrenheit. The snow-fall is not so heavy
as to prevent traffic, and the winter season is
in fact the time when the greater part of the
traffic is carried on, for then the swamps are
frozen, the muddy tracks of summer are con-
verted into hard, firm roads, and carts can
trundle over them as on the best macadam.
And if crops are prevented from maturing for
half the year they are at any rate all the fuller
on that account when they do ripen. The
moisture is retained in the ground, and forms
a sort of reservoir to moisten the roots, while
the warm sunshine of the spring and early
summer acts on the upper growth.
The configuration of the country is no less
favourable to development than the climate.
The Russians have already cut off from Man-
churia its northern coastline which includes the
valuable port of Vladivostok and the important
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