"No marks for place has been seen since leaves to leave here yesterday. The sides of the valley are made of yellow gravel and deposit, after 2 or 40 feet thick. This it is exposed in cuts or wide canyons opening the Taiping valley. The bounding ridges of the valley are about 1000 or 1500 feet above the Taiping River. The shores are impassable, most of the rice fields all the village bank, 60% Chinese population. There shores on the T side near high rocks and on the other side sweeps & that shut to the trees of black & deep blue shrub like those we saw on the Delaware in dress.