with a more than night mare weight, and crushed of all spirit for a higher order of enjoyment than that possessed by the brute creature, is proclaimed at every step in silent speaking language, more eloquent than the wail of the western slave.
From Dzing-yuen to Coong-dong, a village of a hundred families on the top of a hill, the distance is seven le west. The next place reached, N. W. four miles, is Sing-coon-you, a hamlet of 50 families. From the road way, in the centre of a semi-circle of hills, the valley below, in a southerly and westerly direction, is studded with numerous villages and white washed houses, many of them, apparently, the dwellings of the workers among the huge groups of mountains adjacent. Mosen-shee one mile N. W. of Sing-coon-you, lies a little to the left of the road. It is a village said to number over 400 families. Thence to Tsung-jin the course is W. N. W. for about two miles. Tsung-jin, is an extensive village or township of over 3,000 families. Among other curiosities in this quarter, wild cat, fox, and bear skins are obtainable;and in the spring a small fruit of a pleasantly sour flavour, different from any seen in other parts of China. Joss stick and bricks are made here, and much of the native manufactured cloth is dyed.
The bed of a shallow stream running from the north at this place, is over 250 feet in width, and is crossed by a bridge of nine starlinged piers. But though so flourishing a place, the dealers object to giving cash in exchange for foreign dollars;—they say, as is said at nearly all the inland villages, they do not want silver, and would rather lose the sale of their goods than make what they deem such a barter exchange. Some fine elm like trees, called Fung-jee, are to be seen in this quarter;—the aspect
