The Great Road from Peking to Turkestan A very interesting lecture was! given at the American Women's Club rooms on Tuesday, before what must have been' nearly 18 record attendance, by Dr. George B. Cressy of the Shanghai College, tone of the foremost authorities on the geography and geology of China, For the subject of his talk Gresay took the great high ways of the northwest, and illus-rated his words by means of lantern slides from photographs taken summer.
Limself during his expedition last
One of the greatest of these ancient highways. Dr. Cressy suid, was that leading from Peking to Turkestan. south to Shanai, then southwest through Shensi and then north again to Turkestan. The time taken for these journeys ran into months, and it was partly through this that the great differences were found in the measurement of the Ti, in and outside Peking. The originally was a measure of time, Jand thus the distance alters accord-jing to the country, up h'll or down, across rough ground or smooth plain,
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