where the mountain top bears about E.S.E., a path will be seen entering from the road, which, if followed, leads to the summit by an easier way apparently than that entering nearer the Monastery.
From the arched Ding to Tai-ye-wan-ling, the boundary of the Districts Utsien and Haoufung in Che-Kiang, and the border of Ning-kwoh in An-whuy, the distance, up a tiresome ascent in a N. N. W. ly direction, is some five lē. From this point to Ning-kwok-foo, the chief city of the province of Anwhui, the distance is said to be 220 le westerly—the nearest Custom House Pass being Tsien-suen-ling (25).
PROVINCE OF ANWHUY
DEPARTMENT OF NING-KWOH.
From Tai-ye-wan-ling to Tai-chew-fong-ling the general course is about west; but the travelling is all mountainous, down one ascent and up another, through romantic glens and across barren hill sides, sharp pitches and no flag stones, for a distance of about eight miles.
At the Tai-chew-fong-ling the road breaks off from the direct course to the town of Kwang-fuh-tze, or Kwang-fuzzy, as it is called by the natives, and runs through some beautifully cultivated woodland country, along the ridges of hills towards Le-san-yow, a hamlet of forty five families. The Geologist has fine subject here for the study of the various stratæ;—first of what might be called yellow grey granite,—then lime stone rock—then again decomposed granite of a red brown colour;—the hills being variously cultivated with bamboo, plum and fir trees, or maize, and the sedges whose leaves, are used in lining tea chests. The wood cutters sell a species
