Yanglo, quite ten feet wide in many places, A broad high-road to Peking starts from and nearly ten inches deep in wet weather. Along it may be seen hundreds of barrows, most of them bound for a couple of towns thirty miles inland, but some actually chartered to and from Peking. It is the grent barrow-road of Central China, But it strangely ends at the Yangtze, and con-neets neither with any route to Huangchou below or Hankow above, except by water. In word, there is no dry road east or west to Yanglo. On the northern bank of the Yangtze, various mouths of rivers or inlets to Inkes block the way; and as to the southern bank, if a ferry boat be taken at Hankow, the pedestrian will find no Yanglo ferry-boat awaiting him when his twant mile journey has been done. Yanglo is therefore strangely isolated among its Luke and river surroundings, and the results of that isolation are very apparent to any Westerner who may have occasion to make the closer acquaintance of the neighbourhood. Till lately it has been practically
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