a small temple four lé further south, the traveller espies, in a south easterly direction, a peculiar rock called Ye-ling Tung san, standing upright between two rocks, as high, apparently, as one of the loftiest Pagodas. This curiosity of nature is at no great distance from the district city of Fung wha. Still travelling south, Shang yuen, amid a clump of bamboos, is distant one mile,—thence to Che kaou the route inclines a little to the west of south for some two miles further.
At Che kaou they manufacture bricks grooved—a device for saving material. Close by the Pottery is the stream seen from Poo coo mount. Turning from West, a hundred feet wide, this rapid stream is confined by a high mound from spreading over the valley. The Pigeons giving a name to the Mountain are here seen in goodly numbers. They are of a brown colour, their wings tipped with white. Oil cake from Cotton seed is manufactured here in some quantity. At the entrance of the village on a small mound, is a pavilion to the God of Literature, Che kaou is a thriving place of over a thousand families, and dealers here give as many Cash in exchange for a dollar as can be got at Ningpo; but they do not change them willingly.
One mile west sou' west of of Che keaou is Song sah, a small piace. A Bridge over the stream bed on the road to it is of simpler construction than that last described—the uprights being mere poles, with a floor of split bamboo, roughly wove.
Sing coong dong, two miles S. S. W. of Song sah lies in the route by which cattle are sent to market from Tachow; and Zee copoo dow, a village of 400 families, is four lé Sou' west of it.
From Zee eopoo dow to Tong fong she, a village of 3000 families, the distance, still sou' westerly, is five lé. A tablet under a roofed bridge at this
