Mr. Wetcher launch from here & journeyed my river 1 1/2 hrs, arrived at Foochow at 10.M. The river is subject to tide as far as Foochow but it is shallow in many places. The city has small warerooms, possibly large flat blocks of granite of the fields about it. The population is about 1,000,000; many of the people live on boats in the river never come ashore. They have lived this way on the water for many generations. About the city are rice fields where they grow 2 crops of rice a year. The first crop is already harvested & the second one is growing well. Being planted before the first is harvested. On the winter we often plant wheat in these same fields making 3 crops a year. The land is heavily fertilized to stand such a drain. The climate is very hot; the humidity usually always does go, day & year round. There's winter there is no frost the,