On resuming the road, which enters the valley, the track ascends gradually to the border hamlet of Shui Kin Men, four miles onward. The river runs at the bottom of the ravine, and presents an ever-pleasing picture of rugged beauty interlaced with patches of cultivation, Shui Kin Men is the border thornlet between the county distri of Mienchu and Maochow. oad from here continues to Ta Pa, Tt was this direction which the two missionaries took Inst year, winding: their way through the hills to Tien "Onin.
The present party; however, took bridge, within the district of the Maochow magistrate.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.