It. Sept.
all that part of China where the winter temperature prevents the carrying on of building operations, and where the summer floods are so: destructive, the season by-and-by arrives for. the repair of damages. he heavy-summer rains especially thecoutinuous downpour of July and August, soak-down walls. and houses and wash whole farms into' the gullies which in many..regions are the only substitutes for roads. But early in the year the busy hum: of industry is heard all over the; laid. 'The farmer has visited his, field.with picks and spades, and has gone into the depressions, whither his: soil was last seen. in a fluid state, to recover-the same.' He has, made deep cuts in ull the roads, digging up the. earth: therefrom; and restoring. it to the particular. patch in which he is interested.. It is.true that he can by mo. means. be sure of the identity-of the dirt ahich'he gets back, and it is likewise true-that -he has lowered the-yood teu inches or'n: footi by his excavations: in. recovering his: territory,. but: identity:.is "of little: consequence fo him,—i physical question,—whily: all is a
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