As though these two amazing with a private open court which river, and the dark outline of the high hills on the farther side indicated. a little of what sort of country we were going through. We climbed a number of hills, went through some dense Cunninghamla forests and stopped to rest in three straggling villages in one of which at 1030 pin, a story-teller (or possibly" still a reader of the old Sacred Edict) was limbs had not been enough for one day our road took us quickly up a Yhitd pass in which the ascent was again more gradual and the descent more precipitate, in this respect resembling the first of the three passes. I noticed that the driver threw his gear into low and thus let the bus
dangerous part of the entire journey.
easily as possible down the most Workmen "were repairing several bad washouts and digging away landslides that had brought down not only clay, gravel and rocks but also numerous trees. Whereas the Chekiang part of the journey the bamboo had been the most conspicuous tree as we went further into Fukien the pine and then the Cunninghamia became more abundant. It was not until we reached Yenping that the banyan became a feature of the landscape. The numerous and very large liquid amber frees would make this a most bril-ant journey in autumn after the eaves turn colour.
The third pass. was called the Wuling and crossed at 2.05. Fifteen minutes later the bus drew up at Hslenyang, which was the last stop before we reached Pucher at three o'clock. Just before we Teached the bus terminus we noticed motor road branching sharply to the left, This Is presumably the road which runs almost due east to Lishul in southern Chekiang and connects with the road to Wenchow fon the coast and with the more familiar bus routes across Chekiang Province from Hangchow.
The indications were that the Lishui-Pucheng route is not yet so well developed as the Kiangshan
to Klangshan is probably less tra-but the road from Hangchow yelled than that to Lishul. When the bridges are all built, scenic route for Shar should be that from Hangchow through Kiangshan to Pucheng and return by way of Lishul, The Kiang-"Bhan to Pucheng drive took us just six hours, but of this only 4% hours was actual driving time. One would not wish to attempt this drive in wet weather, and a skilful driver is by no means the least important consideration.
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