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Sunday Sept 17
The limits on the pleasures of the
morning are always set,
and it was an interesting day, in the late
afternoon I could not go to
the pleasure which is away no
to charity, find country from
an agricultural point of view
a rather pretty little mountainous
way a great many miles &
progressive trees largely in
little groves
Monday Sept 19
Another mountainous day we went
dinner for about 10 A.M. Saw in the
sky above the great mounds of the
impressiveness of the early dynasty's.
Cianfut was the capital of the
country in the Tang Dynasty
The walls are the style or it
have sun except Parkings and
the gates are magnificent.
Just before we went in we
met Mr. Sharrett, a missionary.
The long main street from the
East gate is lined with low
Chinese houses with a sort of
strong & latticed windows
& uniformity gives a
peculiar effect which is