'The work of constructing motor highways radiating into the surrounding district and forming part of the provincial system, is. also' proceeding apace, These make the magnificent hill.country surrounding Ningpo much more accessible than formerly to the transient visitor. In the old days such beauty spots as the Snowy Valley and the Yuwang Temple could only be reached after a tedious boat journey across the plain on which. Ningpo is situated, but'now the distance can be covered in an hour or so. The road to be complet ed is that to Yuwang. "A. visitor from Shanghai recently described 10 the writer how easily he made the journey to this most interesting, old temple. Arriving in Ningpo Ju the early morning, he took his breakfast fon board the steamer and then' took sampan across the river to the high road station just on the oth side. At a cost of four or Ave dollars he hired a car which conveyed him and his companions along an excellent high road to the temple in the space of half an tour. In the afternoon he returned in the same way and caught the boat for Shanghai." Such journeys can now be made in halt a dozen directions,
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