"This road is a fine example of what leaves refer to as 'good for ten years & bad for a thousand'. Nearby humane feeling for poor burden. The camping place was near the village of Ha-tai- Chao but as the soil was hard no communal digging was to be formed & no tracks were set. (21) The summit here is 760 feet by Lewis Map which is very low for the Wa-Pong-Saleween divide which must be there is a solid wall covered by snow. This country is farmed & quite deforested. The brim above the Young-Chang valley is absolutely treeless, this a series of brown grass clad hills exactly in the general appearance like those around San Francisco Bay near Berkeley & Oakland. The Young-Chang valley is a broad long valley of rice fields with villages sprinkles about prominently it is some 40 miles wide by 15 or 18 miles long & drains into the Saleween. Thiday