Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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also. We stopped for lunch after passing over the range in a warm marine. The hills were covered by a scrub oak, o'ders + some bushes. From the lunch place we followed along the ridge of the same range + then dropped down to the low valley where Per-ya is situated. We reached this village at 5 P.M. & carved in a delapidated temple. Before reaching the village we observed that a bad lands or Garden of the Gods sort of rocks formation on the slopes of the valley here a grayish lava or possibly limestone formation was well fractured into columns 15or 20 feet high. Many of them but some had large heels like pestles & the rock were horizontally bedded. Along one of the creeks we passed the rock was columnar bedded like basaltic columns. The rock which I thought was limestone maybe a sort of pumaceous