Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
Page 126
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Transcription
"did the forest is about finished, the open grassy hillsides predominating. Raining all morning. Very few birds seen along route. At Ju - Ito - Ti Station the forest had entirely disappeared, where cultivated fields were seen almost low on the vertical hillsides. Tale chureche have evidently cut off all the forest, the chance of which is artificial. Remnants of forest are still to be seen in the stream gulches + on a few rocky hilltops. We reached the broken tunnel at 11:30 at station of Wang tong. At this point a slender waterfall 350 feet high dropped over a cliff within a few feet of the R.R. just at the entrance to the tunnel. Below the waterfall was another a stone bridge washed away by the waterfall stream, the rails + board ties crossing the break somewhat supported by thin air. We took several leaps for the rails + men carrying books.