European construction spanning one of the lateral affluents of the Taiping. This bridge is said to mark the Burmese border but there were no masonry boundary monuments near. However from this point outward extended four mile macadamized road with five mile gap which was evidently the bed of the proposed Tengyueh railroad on the grade of this road was very gradual seldom more than 5%+ broken limestone was used as a roadbed instead of the smooth block pavements of the Chinese which forms a cruel footing for jack animals. The mile post at the bridge registered 51 miles. Many gaudy large butterflies were seen in the road showing vivid green, violet, reds, yellow & black.