The railway has now been open about a year, and extends to the iron mines at Ti shangpu 17 miles inland, To this, the other terminus, the train makes nine trips month, but anyone wishing to take advantage of it must first carefully consult the native almanac, or he may find on his arrival a the station that there is a trifle of th or four days to wait for the next train, The running days are the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 13th, 16th, and 19th, etc., of the native months. The run to Tiehshanpu and back again is made in the course of a forenoon, and then the train goes to rest till next time, The lino runs up narrow valley, with alake at the bottom of it, along the foot of a ridge of limestone hills where a great deal of lime burning is done by the natives, huge kilns constructed of the fail-me-er bamboo. The method of their construction is ingenious. A circle of po first driven into the ground and lined ide with small bamboos which hold ther a casing of hardbacked clay. The outside strongly girded with huge bamboo cables, ad the whole built up toa height of twenty or thirty feet. They seen: to anewer the purpose well, and at one burning turn out three or four hundred piculs of lime. No great engineering difficulties seem to have been met with in building the line; there are no heavy cuttings or big ges, but in several places the road bed has been considerably The sleepers are iron el, and ench piece bears upon it the mystic word "Bochum" with ite translation into the longue of the Celestials namely The meaning of these had to the learned. The ballast limestone and slag from the old workings at the iron mountain. The road is not only substantial built, and in the best way, but it has a lod of finish about it hardly to be expected in China. There are mile stones" at every fifth of a Chinese Li, are given, on the one tions, and on the other in foreign kilometres. Unfortunately, for this purpose the rotten freestone of the district has been used, so that the figures are already begining to scale off. The road is not fenced in, or furnished with euch things as bridges overhead, or subways underneath, for the safety of those whose business leads them to cross it. Nut only does every une cross it where he has " mind to, but it hi become the main thoroughfare of the district. Owing to the materials with which it is ballasted, a more villainous road to walk upon could hardly be imagined, but there ie nothing better in the ueighbourhood,
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