Fields of cotton bales from which the cotton had been plucked were seen & squares of garden vegetable & fields of beans etc. About 25 miles out we passed thru & groves of mulberry & trees of living size, The leaves are used for the food of silk worms, which are raised here in great abundance. The groves of the mulberries are not however often the raisers [silk] worms but pick the leaves & take them by boat to the purchasers at harbours the worms. The who plain is cut into a net work of boat canals which gives the people cheap transportation for agricultural products. Chang-an where we left the train is in the center of the mulberry district. From this station we took small