Ningpo to Shanghai in 1857/Haou-foong to Sze-tche-sah
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—The low ground hereabout is profusely studded with mulberry trees—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—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;—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—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,—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.