North Shensi is a region little known, T suppose, to the outward world, It has nothing to attract visitors. It is reached from Singan by passing through a ferriter little inviting—Fn Chou This latter is terribly diversified by awful chasms, wrk: ed in the course of ages by the downfall of rain, The mule paths—carviaze reads are luxuries left behind in the Pingan plain—are condemned to traverse the very edge of these chasms and as if by a perverse instinct the mules choose further the very extreme edge, The high ground is occupied by cultivation, but the productive power of the land, unaided as it is by farm manure, is only a third of that in the plain. From Fu Chow northward begin steep hills, sometimes stony but for the most part of earth, The high' road, a mule path as I have ted Vu After a prelin haps
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