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November 127
Dawnbeck 7 am +
Discovered myself travel
Turn Rice fields with an
Occasional tea garden + fruit
Clad hills. From Tensay -
Nigama River Kuyishun
until its main was visible
in a clear story, The river is
a wide gravel mud flan
but very shallow. Know it
a clean part of country with
the snow covering. Flora
Nympis is visible. Further
on near Elizabontown
we arrived 8:45 vertical
farming was in practice
The 1st I had seen in Japan
In gardens composed over
these farms which run well
to the tops of mountain
with hills. On this less steep
with terraces were inhabitants.