alouse rut, The road crossed the Young-chang river on a suspension bridge moving between a great cliffs at a very narrow place the head of a canyon then not wher the river leaves the valley. The formation here is limestone & the soil on the hill a bright brick red that in the valley a light lemon brown clay soil. The One of the common trees with hills is a twisted euphorbia furea, others another is a private dwarf ash tree with long green acid fruit having a single stone in the center. The common pine is also seen here. The hills are dotted by a variety of trees in park like arrangement with long burning brown grass everywhere. The road climbed intermittently all day at 5 P.M. Merride camp somewhere near the village of Ta-shui-rough an altitude of 600 feet destroyed. There was a spring here & in a ravine forest with wet black loam where rodents runways could