Seeing you have so repeatedly expressed your desire for information of all kinds in reference to the interior of China, I beg to send you the' followin notes of a journey of seven weeks through the most important districts of Shantung.
Our route lay through Whang-hien, Lai chow-foo, Wei-hien, Tai-nan-foo, Tai-ngan-shen, or sacred hill of China, then passed foo, ascended to the pinnacle of the Tai-
'Mencius, and came home to Chefoo, right Shrotgh the, country of Confusius and through' the heart of the ince vid Mung-yin-hien and Eo-shui-l across the two great- mountain ranges which form the duplex backbone of Shantung.
Bhewhere have described the physical characteristics of the country; and shall now only note the present aspect of
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