We viewed the falls sideways, and from above and below, and from a charming pavilion opposite that looks like a temple. It was all more lovely than anything I had deen led to expect: but T saw it under exceptionally favourable circumstances. These falls are quite close to the city, and to reach them we had to ass through one of the mest altracive quarters of Tengyueh by way of the Customs House. The" betises with their sweeping tiled roots stand amidst lovely tress, and are embel-Ushed with every sort of extravagence in the way of walls and gates. Returning home we passed along the top of the city wall where it was a relief to get away from the ill-laid stones with which all the roads and streels are paved, and which have Jbeen justly described as "Good for ten years, and bad for a thousand." The square walls of Tengyueh are said tg have been built in the Ming period in A. D. 1445, and are still in good state of preservation. Orchids and ferns grow on the wall, and there are wide grassy walks along the top whence you look down on one side (outwards) over the countryside and onto the roofs of the city (the city, as I have explained, being outside the wall), and jon the other side (inwards) upon gardens and upon the various offices and quariers of the Clu-ban, or Governor. The Clu-ban claims' that his house, which is certainly old, was built by the general who defeated the Burmese army during the Ming dynasty.
A Foreign Cemetery Customs Hill, which is known to the Chinese s Lai Fang Shan, is tone of the pleasantest places' in Tengyueh, The northern slope faces the city and is the common burial ground, being dotted over with tombstones, some old and ruined, some new and magnificent. Twice a year, and November is one of those seasons, the people carry up their tea and have an alfresco meal with heir ancestors. Tt isa pleasant. custom: and except in Japan I think I have never seen a more attractive comely, The bil covered with flower-spangled grass, and the north face is well wooded with pine and cypress which throw quiet shade, and there ate also many curious' hollows and ravines which give a peculiar character to the hill, All the way up there are fine views over the city, and from the summit one can see' to perfec tion the whole panorama of sur Lung rounding) mountains including "the three volcanoes and the more distant and upstanding wall. of the Irrawaddy-Salween divide.
Amongst the thousands of Chinese graves, lies the litle foreign cometery under a group of pines. surrounded by a low lava wall, There are only four graves in it, including that of Litton who died here while Consul in 1906: But the most. in= teresting is that of the celebrated botanist, Forrest, who died in January, 1932. 'The idiot who composed the inscription has described Forrest as a "Natural History Collector". Someone has planted a clump' of iris at the foot of the grave.
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