as the eye could see no hills were visible. The country is one great rice field level without any terraces or small plots of fields. The second crop of which was well given the landscape a light green lush appearance. The villages were constricted, usually as few clustered huts as in the Philippine's first climate, along these dwellings were clumps of trees & groves of bamboo intersecting. The country were found broad metalled roads, built by the French. The landscape had a variegated appearance, the great green rice fields being interspersed by grove of trees via which the huts were hidden. The trees were leaves of various sorts, palms, chiefly in slender areas with a few coco & fan palms. Hanoi promised to be a beautiful town of wide avenues with fine