or removal of the boulders. Here were seen many small brushes + a candleburr planting some 10 feet high was common, at 2 P. M. we stopped for tiffin at hot springs near a running stream. A steaming hot clear water comes from the hillside, here there are spring phlox and water clustered in steaming on the hills. Frogs were heard calling here the first I have heard in Tengyueh district. Just after leaving Tengyueh we saw one of the leather-leaved giant fig-trees bearing small yellow figs. These trees continued all the roadway where their great spreading branches make excellent shed.