. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. CITY OF CH UNHUA FROM THE CITY OF CHUNGPU FROM THE E. V] FROM FENGHSIANG TO YENAN 6i about 4700 feet. From the pass there is no immediatedescent, the track following along a winding ridge in thegrass and brush-covered hills for 25 li, and then descendinga few hundred feet to reach Yichiin, a dilapidated littlecity, built on the side of the ridge, the centre of a very poorthird class district. The range of mountains crossed on this days marchforms the watershed between th
. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. CITY OF CH UNHUA FROM THE CITY OF CHUNGPU FROM THE E. V] FROM FENGHSIANG TO YENAN 6i about 4700 feet. From the pass there is no immediatedescent, the track following along a winding ridge in thegrass and brush-covered hills for 25 li, and then descendinga few hundred feet to reach Yichiin, a dilapidated littlecity, built on the side of the ridge, the centre of a very poorthird class district. The range of mountains crossed on this days marchforms the watershed between the Lo and Wei rivers, thetwo principal streams draining Northern Shensi, and riseswell above the loess covering. Perhaps the soil of no regionin the world has been worked by man to the same extentas the loess of Central Shensi, where the Chinese have beenscratching, sowing, and reaping uninterruptedly for some4000 years or more, and the landscape of those plainsappears tired and worn out. It is therefore a relief to getout of the loess, with its alternate dust and mud, glaringheat, insufficient and often brackish water, and treeless andmonotonou
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