The Middle Kingdom a Survey of the Geography Government Education Social Li
The Middle Kingdom a Survey of the Geography Government Education Social Li
S Wells Samuel Wells Williams
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This road was in ancient times the path to the metropolis, and these immense excavations were made from time to time by different monarchs. The pass over the Mei ling, at Kan-ngan, is a work of later date, and so are most of the other roads across this range in Fuhkien and Ivwangtung. The general aspect of the country is perhaps as much modi- ^ Voyages a Peking, Vol. II. , p. 214. Compare the letter of a Jesuit mis- sionary (Annales de la Foi, Tome VII. , p. 377), who describes houses of rest o...n the wayside. These singular road-gullies of the loess region have been very thoroughly examined by Baron von Richthofen, from whose work the cut above is taken. ^ Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXVIL, p. 656. ■lO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. fied by labor of man in China as in England, but the appear- ance of a landscape in the two kingdoms is unlike. Whenever water is a\aihil)le, streams are led upon the rice lields, and this kind of cultivation allows few or no trees to grow in the plats. Such fields are divided by i-aised banks, which serve for path- ways across the marshy enclosui-e, and assist in confining the w'ater when let in upon the growing crop.
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