. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. ond class district, lies inanother of the fertile valley plains of the Han basin, that ofthe Muma River. This valley runs from to andis here some miles broad. To the south a rocky range ofmountains rises some thousands of feet above the plaintowards the Szechuan border, and to the north are bare hillsseparating the valley from the Han. The district is one ofthe wealthiest in Southern Shensi, though these compareunfavourably, in spite of their apparently greater prosp
. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. ond class district, lies inanother of the fertile valley plains of the Han basin, that ofthe Muma River. This valley runs from to andis here some miles broad. To the south a rocky range ofmountains rises some thousands of feet above the plaintowards the Szechuan border, and to the north are bare hillsseparating the valley from the Han. The district is one ofthe wealthiest in Southern Shensi, though these compareunfavourably, in spite of their apparently greater prosperity,as regards land tax receipts with many of the Wei valleydistricts, such as Weinan, Lintung, Pucheng, etc., owing,it is said, to much of the newly reclaimed land in themountains not being on the old registers. A good deal ofsilk is produced. This Han valley silk is inferior to theSzechuan product, but is good enough to send to Kansu inexchange for the skins, furs, musk, deer-horns, and medi-cines of that province. Hsihsiang is also noted as thehome of many famous literati and officials, and we were PLATE VII. HAN RIVER AT CH A CHEN
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