Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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Transcription
So - cho - to village without underbush. In places I saw a slender Juniper for the first time, Many flowers were seen in the hedges bordering rice fields. The commonest was a pale blue Colembree. A showy flower was a many white Rosaceae 2 inches in diameter + green's on a small straight branch. A pine-fox was another new flower. There were blue carpers, & purple astale. The sides of the valley out of which we climbed were sand- stone, the road slippery yellow clay. Furtheron I saw lava formation. W.C.I 2:3 p.m. we made camp at a isolated temple in rice fields near the village of So - cho - ta. Purple laburnus or ausp dragons, lined the road. At one place I saw a field of white balsams but there is such a cultivated crop grown. The rain continued all night therefore no mosquitoes & marvels.