Graceful curves, and sloping grades with a few sharp tums here and there and the bus once more is among the foot hills purring along level road to the next stopping place. After a run of approximately twenty, miles Seven-Li Hill looms in view and the ascent of 365 feet is made by [gradual curves. When the highest point on the hill is finally reached away off in the distant lowlands can be seen the small town of Chiao-ho. fon the banks of the Wild Chicken River. This stream is is not navigable Tu former years, before the motor road was put through, it had to be repeatedly forded by the coolles carrying merchandise to and from 'Kweiciow. In the rainy season it became a raging torrent and annually claimed its toll of lives of those drowned while trying to ford the stream. Another twenty miles of fairly' level highway and the towering top Jof Old Tash Mountain comes. view. This is a great granite boulder whose sides have been blown to pieces in order to make the ram's horn ascent up its rocky sides. The climb starts with a graceful horseshoe curve, and then begins a spiral ascent which continues until after climbing for nearly 700 feet the sum~ mit is reached. Then a gradual slide downward of 120 feet over a six mile run and the car glides into Nantan, a small prefectural city—the aston the run to the Kweichow border. Here new public highway offices and garages have been erected and a staff of polite and efficient Joficers are in charge who seem to take pleasure in catering to the needs lof the travelling public and who do {their best to make the journey both comfortable and pleasant.
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