and thence, still descending, trending somewhat to the southward of west for about seven lé, a Ding is arrived at, marking the boundary between the districts of Dzing and Tchi-ki.
So utilitarian are the Chinese in all their productions, that, on viewing the marked difference in the aspect of the foliage on the approach to the Tchi-ki district, the traveller is induced to stop by the descending way to enquire into the character of the massive trees, with ferny branches of a deep olive green not unlike those of the old Yew in England. Trees of this description are cultivated in large numbers and cut into excellent planking.
The Landscape painter, for a picture here, has to exhaust his pallet. The soil, of a red brown, is in parts cut up for planting; in others covered with the yellow flowered brassica before spoken of, or with maize or sedges;—then the limner has the green of wheat, the deeper tinted tea, the gold and silver wreathed bamboo, and the dark olive of the yew tree;—the hills, in some parts, rising perpendicularly from the stream bed below, and continually inducing the lover of nature in its rugged forms, an exclamation of pleasure and surprise.
Fong-jue-ling, is the name of the pass between the boundary of the districts and a little location called Tchin-za-dow, 5 miles N.W. from the village of Shee-kong, where one or two families are employed in the manufactory of paper. From Tchin-za-dow to Ching-ka-wo, a hamlet of 40 families, the course is N.N.E. one mile. A fine open ancestral hill is to be seen here ;and from the appearance of the exteriors of the little two storied whitewashed houses, with indented window lintels and ornamented gabels, the inhabitants might reasonably be
