Lot owners are busy tracing the cold, The home mails of the ist of July which prevent such mishaps in the future, Under clear, and often copious springs. For had been lying in Chefoo arrived here per the direction of their worthy Chief, they scenery, we have the Great Lake off to the s. Progress yesterday afternoon and gave have certainly been very successful in the north, the extensive rice fields on the plain general satisfaction, construction of the road, and in maintaining eastward, while the Chientang river is visi-Notwithstanding' the unusual heat we it in working order most of the time ble just before it enters Hangchow, beyond have had during the last fortnight, the "at since its completion. the south of us. Numberless ridges, crests, home" tennis parties have been well 'THE CROP PROSPECTS, and peaks crowd each other to the furtherest attended and croquet has been nowhere.
West. Eastwards all now is green; skywards, and reaching land a few feet higher and After passing the alkali plains of Tangku, after the clouds have raced and chased, we 16th August, of a better soil, the standing grain get the most celestial blue. presented a better appearance; and in 16th August. general it may be said that the promise now is of a fair yield in the autumn harvest,
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