ten miles E. by N.—the canal runs by the villages of Tching zu—Sun-quon-deo, Chang-teng and Yat-ling-jow—the low hills around being thickly studded with Firs or Mulberry trees, over Wheat, Beans and Grassicher.—Bridges of excellent workmanship are met at various points where the streams go north or south from the principal Channel A little way beyond Yatling-jow is the Poo-dee-mew; from which Nan-Dzing or Noan-zin, and unwalled town of 40 or 50,000 inhabitants bears N.E. distant about 3 miles. Nan-Dzing is a very busy place, giving employment to many coopers of the lacquered tubs and implements sold in northern China markets, and occasionally seen in the south.
Jin-zek, another large town on the Canal's banks, is about five miles from Nan-Dzing; and half a dozen miles further on, in a North easterly direction, is Say-chee, also a place of considerable size. The next place of note, after passing Say-chee, and about Three miles east of it is Ping-bong. This is a very interesting place, the principal trade being in oil and oil cake of which there are several manufactories. By the Eastern entrance is a pretty Temple (Kwei-shin-kwok) with a shrine to Te-chang-wan the Goddess of Earth—the view from the top of the Pagoda to the southward and westward being over lagoons and streams for immense distances—Northward and eastward the country is flat for miles, and cultivated with the yellow flowered grassicher spoken of and with beans;—and in a Lake close by, there is a picturesque temple on a small islet called Jow-bing-boo-doe. Eastward runs the Canal to Shanghae. At the entrance of the temple beneath the Pagoda, the unbeliever in the virtue of Buddhism feels a strong
