Travels in north and central China . m <* i METHOD OF CARRYING LIVE PIGS. CHUNG-KING TO CHENG-TU. 317 from the level. The ponies negotiate this sort ofthing like cats ; they are used to it, and theirshoulders are very strong and projecting in con-sequence. I climbed the kopje at the top, another 50 feet,and surveyed a wide area of similar summits inevery direction, forming circles within circles, whilenarrow elliptical basins radiated from each, verysteep and craggy at their upper ends. We woundround a high hill near its crest, among a profusion ofloose-limbed, feathery cypresses, and obtai
Travels in north and central China . m <* i METHOD OF CARRYING LIVE PIGS. CHUNG-KING TO CHENG-TU. 317 from the level. The ponies negotiate this sort ofthing like cats ; they are used to it, and theirshoulders are very strong and projecting in con-sequence. I climbed the kopje at the top, another 50 feet,and surveyed a wide area of similar summits inevery direction, forming circles within circles, whilenarrow elliptical basins radiated from each, verysteep and craggy at their upper ends. We woundround a high hill near its crest, among a profusion ofloose-limbed, feathery cypresses, and obtained agrand view down one of the valleys which ranbetween two immense spines till it struck anotherand still larger valley at right angles, beyond whichwas what looked like a continuous range but probablywas not. Still further on we used another big spineby which to descend to the plain 600 feet we had an easy run on the flat along the banksof a small sluggish river, which flows into the Kia-lingabove Ho-chau. So we had ag
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