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Browsing
28 Our camp at Sung Suiy
was on a fine grassy meadow west
of town and in the morning on
route lay thru the town which is
string along this one long road.
It is a typical filthy Chinese
town with Shang or other tribes
being purely Chinese. The
Sung-Hing valley is small &
irregular & stream crossed it &
asended the bare hills. The route
was a paved road leading to
Yung Chang. South of the
road on at the spurs I could
see 2 miles away a temple
pidwerly perched on a sharp
conical peak whikers well
forested the trees hiding the lower
tails of the buildings. The
roadsides about Sung-Hing an
lined by rose hedges, which are now
bearing single yellow flowers sweet
scent. This is perhaps the rambler
rose of Wilson Chinese flora. The pear
trees are now in white with blossoms
& the few peach trees also pink with flowers.
A few South Primroses & a carnation
roseaceous flowered shrub red bearing