heads and tails project on either side with a fine decorative effect. We came across veral instances of covered bridges, with pictured sides like that of the Dance of Death over the Limath at Zurich, and one very curious example where the bridge was two-storied with shops of course on either side in the lower storey. Suspension bridges are frequent among the wild mountain country of the West and on one occasion across a river with a very wide bed we were surprised to come across a genuine cantilever bridge. It was just at the time our home the Forth Bridge, as the last transcendent achievement of the nineteenth century and there, in this most remote part of China close on 2,000 miles from the coast, we found an old cantilever bridge, of which we had never heard, and of which no one spoke as anything' remarkable.
The streets of Chinese cities are full of picturesque effects. Some day an artist will rise up, who will paint them and reveal to the world what a glory of colour, what a rich medley of light and ud interlacing curves and decorated beam ends people now pass by unadmiring. Since, however, I have personally conducted the writer of the Japan-
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