Inst accomplished " long-h and visited Mokanshs the least belie be as beautiful as people made out when I looked up from the rice fields of the plain, and saw houses starting out of the top of the hill like big, too big, mushrooms just as they do in the photographs of Kuling, which always given mo a disinclination to vie that place, But those are merely the crowded congregation on the ridge catching every breeze that blows, but above the softening influence of the green mist of bamboo groves, which render beautiful all but these ridges, reversed as they are with occasion Cunninghamia and here and there dark groups, that, I am assured, are Cryptomeria. It certainly is a very delightful place, and it is quite an amusement to visit the various houses, noticing what view points I chosen by preference styles of arch houses must exact edge wi finest possible view in full display through the windows, how the Pape houses must nestle among batnboo groves with a plentiful supply of watorand what delicious water! as of shade always at hand, yet also each with their fine view but not dashed upon you re like @ shower bath, but tops of ti mand Cap-from afar, and flowers and how some people run to gables, others to dove-cotes, and how the London Mission houses ud together the American Presbyterian Mission by its own bands of children holding forth incitement to other children to congregate amor their bamboos, and bei i the road that leads to Church. re been an uphill way instead of the one fat path The one drawback I was told to Mokanshan was that there wore no flowers there, no fruit, no luxuries it could ious bunch of flowers before large pink roses, such fine berries I have eaten sin what could strawberries you can never get in Shanghai nor in any lowlands? As we walk slong one road Tam told "We never corns here winter without 1B 8 deer." children the other day saw s hare with young ones—indeed they have got young hare as. pet—also a pheasant With its brood of young ones, But partridges are the chief ter when the bamboos are ly with snow—the weight is 80 great that they have to be topped not to break down under it, this rather spoiling and th LI the mountain streams now filling the air with their pleasant murmur.
How it may be when all there houses are full to bursting of children and grown-up people I do not know, but one sees at once that Mokanshan has boon laid out not for people who seek but who, many of them com-frosh pure air upon the mountains And great and pleasant roust be the gathoringe, when the Church Mission i vale, and the top, and all the ridge people from Foochow' and Nanking and other lees well known places, together with the American Missions, meet on the tennis grounds (out in pairs, one for growuone for children, only one groat mistake in Mokanshan. Obviously arrival of the postman with his lott-rs and newspapers must be one of the groat events of the day, the office one of the natural resorts. Ought it not to have been either near to or on the way to the compradore's Ought it not also to have been the first places arrived at, postman could deliver be sorted on first arrival to be carried right through the place up to Mount Clear and there to be sorted, and then the poor letter-ca rier has to descend hit, a8 well aa climbing the other heights, And they are actually ing now post-office alongside of the ly remote spot. of the many trips ud the post-office, yy, that arrangement seems far preferable to that at Mokanshan, The groat drawback, howsve place is the jo it tome day bes near, 8 good ricsha road to the base of the mountain and a funicular or system of ascensours up it. Bat in future somebody really ought to arrange of steam launches and houseboats Shanghi todd dave direct for the Resthouso, so that with only one night in ti busts people could up to lias and has Pitable houses here within the 24 hours and without any farther complicated changes, than that into sedans at the Resthouse, There might even be some houseboats fitted out with bedding and all complete. Then we should surely have hosts of Shanghai men only too glar to get away for a week-end, lot al Bank holiday, on to the mountaina, able to enjoy at least one long day there
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