The coolies in digging the new creek exhumed six very large k'angs, one of which contained a fully robed Buddhist priest in the attitude of prayer. The clothes and the earthenware showed him to have lived in the Ming dynasty; the body when found was in an excellent state of preservation, but in a very few hours was reduced to its primal dust by the action oftheair. The Viceroy went out to examine the relics, and it is understood that H.E. has ordered a temple to be erected at the place.
26th May,
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