Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 152
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Transcription
The valley is rather deep, but the similar Solvven in shape, but less deep x and tropical being 4,000 feet at the bridge. There is another growth near the river only grassy slopes & rice terraces. At the bridge the river is bordered by grassy curved bluffs 100 feet high. The road winding up the valley slope thru small villages & rice fields over the gardens & paved on the block being a blockish shaler shale, the formation changing at the river where granite comes. The whole afternoon we travelled over grassy curved hills with demand of forest, with no cultivation only few small villages. Also small streams were crossed. At dark we camped at a small village on the hills 30 li or 2hrs from Tien-yu-chi 15) The night was cold & bright but dawn was partly clear with a queer rainbow in the east above the rolling grassy hills. Our road