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[...] During the Ming dynasty this wood had already become scarce (having probably been everywhere cut down and not replanted), and was brought chiefly from almost inaccessible valleys, situated in the valleys inhabited by wild tribes. The Imperial Palaces at Peking were built almost entirely of this timber, the Emperor Kia-tsing, in the year [...]
[...] is judged of chiefly by the pungency of the scent. I have dwelt at so much length on this wood, of so much value in the Chinese market, because I saw to my extreme astonishment in the Manwyne valley, in the Kakhyen Hills, and again in Lower Burmah, in places compara tively accessible, trees whose resemblance to the nan-mu was very [...]
[...] with a ragged population. It was of the usual Chinese shape and ap pearance, and about three miles in circumference, situated on a rising in the centre of the valley, and, with its numerous pavilions, backed by cloud-capped mountains, looked almost picturesque. The Commandant informed us that he had just suppressed a rising at Pi-tsi, in the adjoin [...]
[...] bellion the country was reported to have been well wooded, having Chinese pines on the hills, and white insect wax trees, pear, walnut, peach, and other fruit trees in the valleys. We saw little cultivation, except opium ; coal was everywhere to be found in the hills, and in the neighbourhood is situated the Lo ma copper mine. [...]
[...] observed considerable quantities of opium, sugar, and wheat growing, with parcels of salt going both ways. The mountains were barren-loºk ing and the valleys for the most part uncultivated. At a village called for its bleakness Lai t'ou po (scald-headed ridge), on a hill estimated by Mr. Baber to be about 8,000 feet above the sea level, having a dry [...]
[...] arrived at the district city of Gan-ning chow, a broken down, small town, having scarcely any house standing, and a limited ragged popu lation. It is situated in a valley, and being formerly of importance on account of the salt wells in its vicinity, it was provided with a wall during the reign of the Ming Emperor Hungwu (1368–99.) On [...]
[...] during the reign of the Ming Emperor Hungwu (1368–99.) On the 28th the Mission reached the district city of Lu-fung, situ ated as usual, in a valley. It first became of importance in the reign of the Emperor Kublai Khan, at the end of the thirteenth century, but it is now in ruins, having very few inhabitants. [...]
[...] with long grass, sprinkled with scent fir, with Chinese pines growing in favoured localities. There were no traces of either sheep or cattle on these hills, and no cultivation except at the bottoms of the valleys. We passed a considerable quantity of salt coming from Wu-ting fu, bound for the provincial capital, together with, in smaller quantities, [...]
[...] near Peking. It crosses an affluent of the Sang koi river. On the 81st the Mission reached Kuang-t’ung hsien, built in the reign of the Emperor Hungwu, of the Ming dynasty, situated in a valley, and more populous than most of the places we had lately passed through. The valley was well filled with cottages, but a great proportion of the [...]
[...] plain. On the other hand goitre is regularly spread all over or nearly all over the country from the Yangtsze to Momein, apparently irrespective of the heights of the valleys above the sea level. It attacked people of all ages, from little children of two cr three years old to men of fifty, and was universally attributed to the mountain water combined with [...]
[...] would end at Ta-rua, and goods be brought from thence directly to Bangkok by boating. Korat is a plateau. On passing from the valley of Siam to this plateau, a single elevation will need to be sur mounted by the tramway. The ground in certain parts of the route is firm, and will admit of an iron track. In the low lands timber will [...]
[...] hand, so far from exulting, seemed somewhat ashamed of the occurrence and complained of the paucity of the inhabitants. The valley of Ta-li fu is bounded on the west by a 1, ſh range of hills having snow on the summits foſſ, on an average, eight months out of twelve ; and on the east by the Erh hai, which is about [...]
[...] from four to eight miles. The lake is bounded on its eastern side by a range of steep mountains. At the base of the mountains on the western side of the valley, at an average distance of from three to five miles from the lake, the land slopes with a gentle declivity down to the water's edge, while the high mountains above aſſord a [...]
[...] met with the vestiges of tombs, irrigation ducts, and other signs of Chinese occupancy. On the 3rd the Mission, after an almost sheer descent of 2,000 feet, reached the valley and city of Teng-yueh chow (\lomein). As this locality and the rest of the route have been recently visited and carefully described by Major Sladen and his party, I will [...]
[...] trend from north to south, contiguous to others from east to west, having no table land or anything approaching a plateau, nor any lead ing or main ranges. Between these mountains are valleys of every form and shape, the size depending generally on the elevation. At a high elevation the valley is narrow ; lower down it becomes broader, [...]
[...] form and shape, the size depending generally on the elevation. At a high elevation the valley is narrow ; lower down it becomes broader, being fringed with smaller ones, and is the seat of a valley or district city; while lower still it, with others, converges into a small plain, containing a departmental city and sometimes a lake. At a still lower [...]
[...] Of this vast surface not one-twentieth part is at present cultivated or put to any use whatsoever; for, although not only the whole of the valleys, but a very fair proportion of the hill sides have been carefully terraced and supplied with water channels, yet only a small part of the patty ground has hitherto been broken up. The land under cultivation, [...]
[...] one part, there is the vast mineral wealth of Yunnan, and, on the other, in addition to steam communication with India and Europe, the great valley of the Irrawaddy, equal in inherent powers of production to the valleys of the Nile or Euphrates, and which, from its incom parable irrigation capabilities, would, if inhabited and cultivated, be [...]
[...] to the valleys of the Nile or Euphrates, and which, from its incom parable irrigation capabilities, would, if inhabited and cultivated, be probably the most productive valley in the world. To show the difference between this petty restricted traffic and the trade attainable at a mart opened to foreign trade, I may instance the [...]
[...] J.P.T.W. (barque), Manila to Boston, Feb. 26, off Cape of Good Hope. AGNES, Cardiff to Singapore, March 24, 14 S., 33 W. VALLEY FoRGE, San Francisco to Manila, April 15. Johan NA Sophia, Singapore to New York, Feb. 27, 34 S., 29 E. BorgA, Penang to London, March 31, 8 S., 14 W. [...]
[...] (Announcements for subscribers are made free of charge.) BiRTHS. Lortus–On the 24th March, at River Valley-road, Singapore, the wife of Capt. J. A. Loftus, of a son. TENNENT—on the 11th March, at Shanghai, the wife of Dr. C. Emersen Tennent, of a [...]
[...] and commercial considerations and political arguments which exist in favour of a through railway route to Calcutta, with an extension to Canton.* The project of a Euphrates Valley Railway, to connect the Bay of Antioch with steamers on the Euphrates, or to be continued eight hundred miles to Bussorah, [...]
[...] since, and £20,000, furnished by Parliamentary vote, was ex pended on the survey of the earlier section. The feasibility of a railway was never doubted. The Euphrates Valley was the actual route of our postal transit to and from India, even before the colossal wooden seaman surmounted the first India House. [...]
[...] have been regarded as having prevented the British Govern ment from giving effect by a guarantee to the scheme of a Euphrates Valley Railway; but the continued reticence of suc cessive cabinets since 1857 must be taken as indicating a con viction of the insufficiency of either a line from Antioch con [...]
[...] to the Bosphorous, the road crossing by a tubular bridge, thence to Alexandretta on the Mediterranean, and by the Euphrates Valley and the northern shore of the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee. Here it would presently unite with lines com pleted or in progress, eonnecting it on the one hand with [...]
[...] full of promise. The financial nucleus of the company to undertake the work may be found among those who have in terested themselves in the Euphrates Valley Railway; but a through overland route would excite from the first infinitely greater interest, commanding the attention of the whole mone [...]
[...] easy task, as the Nienſei take every opportunity of harassing his troops as they pass through the narrow mountain defiles, which afford the only egress from the valleys in which they were encamped. To judge by the statements made by our in formant, Tseng Kwo-fan is almost surrounded, but this is pro [...]
[...] dued by sad recollections, for who can forget the faces that last winter were amongst us, and now are not ? Some of our best and brightest sleep in the ‘Happy Valley'; others, broken in health, have gone back to Europe to try to restore constitutions undermined by this pestilent air. It has been a sad year enough for the civilians, but their loss has been [...]
[...] among many evils that they have suffered from, and these, in conjunction with a bad season, have filled the hospitals of Hong Kong to overflowing with patients, the cemetery in the ‘Happy Valley' with new-made graves, and invalid ships with melancholy freights of pale, emaciated creatures, many of whom will never breathe the native air they pine for [...]
[...] present an insuperable barrier to commerce that we, the most enterprising commercial nation that ludia ever saw, have been content to leave the trade through its rich valleys in the hands of its barbarous inhabitants. Yet so great is the demand by the natives to the north of them for their products and those of the countries south of them, that these very barba [...]
[...] English energy effect, with capital, roads, and free-trade 2 And these re marks apply especially to Bhootam, for the further eastward we go in the Himalaya the richer are the plains and valleys south of it, and the more populous the country north of it. Many look with apprehension to Russia occupying Thibet; in my [...]
[...] to feed Central and Northern Asia from India. But let it be remem bered that Russia must be fed as she occupies, and at first by the occupants of the Himalayan valleys, just as the troops of the present masters of Thibet, the Chinese, are now fed by Sikkim and Bhootan. Russia, then, once on the frontier will have to depend on Nepaul, Sikkim, and Bhootam [...]
[...] Thibet, the Chinese, are now fed by Sikkim and Bhootan. Russia, then, once on the frontier will have to depend on Nepaul, Sikkim, and Bhootam for a scanty supply of the worst and dearest food, or occupy those valleys herself, when she can raise the same food in any quantity and at a nominal price. Who can doubt the alternative she will choose, or blame her for [...]
[...] in slavery to grow crops which go partly to support themselves in idleness, while the rest is sold on the frontier to feed the Chinese troops at L'Hassa. Bhootan consists of a series of magnificent valleys as long as England is broad, where between 1,000 and 7,000 feet of rice, maize, millet, &c., are grown without tillage or irrigation, and above that elevation all European [...]
[...] our communication with India is under special consideration and revision we trust the present Government will not be in different to the great importance of the Euphrates Valley route, which after all is not entirely out of compass to guarantee in some shape or other. This route has received of late increased [...]
[...] hereafter by avoiding the passage of the Red Sea, when a railway shall be constructed from the coast of the Mediterranean along the Euphrates Valley to the Persian Gulf. By this route many hundred miles of dis tance and many days of time might be saved between London and Bom bay, which will become within the next two years (when the railways to [...]
[...] via Suez and the Red Sea to Bombay, and even that amount of naviga tion may ultimately be avoided by the connection together of Bagdad and Bombay by railway. But in the meantime the Euphrates Valley scheme has been for many years almost in abeyance. The mere guarantee of the Turkish Government has not been found sufficient even to render the [...]
[...] Mr. W. P. ANDREW, who is largely connected with Indian railways, and is the recognised leader of the Euphrates Valley route, writes to The Times : [...]
[...] A writer, signing “C. E.,” says:— It is now twenty years since that I was directed by Her Majesty's (then) Government to examine for the purposes of a railway route the valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris from the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea, in other words, from Bussorah to Trebizonde, and from the Bay of Iscanderoon, on [...]
[...] the Euphrates and Tigris from the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea, in other words, from Bussorah to Trebizonde, and from the Bay of Iscanderoon, on the Mediterranean via Aleppo, into the Euphrates Valley; and having obtained at Constantinople the necessary firman from the Porte (through the British Ambassador), I proceeded with an assistant and the other [...]
[...] time to time been made, but I believe that my own is the only survey made of the route throughout by order of Her Majesty's Government. may only remark, en passant, that the Euphrates Valley is well suited for a line of railway of easy and cheap construction, and that apart from its suitability as a line to India, it would collect a vast amount of traffic [...]
[...] With respect to the production of the mountain silk, which has of late attracted some little attention in the silk trade, I subjoin some particulars. They were gathered by myself in a visit made by me to some silk valleys in August and September last, and are partly corrective of statements on the subject made in my last report, and which were chiefly based on second [...]
[...] dred. In each season, as fast as the worms consume the leaves on one bush, they are removed by the attendant silk cultivators to another, the youngest bushes being used first. I was in some of the silk valleys from the 29th August to the 12th September, and had an opportunity of ob serving the autumnal worms in their last stages. The most advanced [...]
[...] “8. The French and Dutch detachments were already in their boats, when the Naval Brigade, stationed at Battery No. 5, was suddenly attacked by a strong body of Japanese assembled in the valley in the rear of the battery. Colonel Suther's battalion of Marines, coming up at this moment a joint attack was immediately organised, and the enemy [...]
[...] “On descending, with much labour, through the dense brushwood on the western side a detachment of French sailors was found in occupation of the upper battery on the right-hand side of the valley. “The remainder of the force, excepting a company of Royal Marine Artillery (Lieutenant W. H. T. M. Dodgin, Royal Marine Artillery, in [...]
[...] force, and as immediately on arriving at the foot of the hill parties of the enemy had shown themselves at intervals between the trees on either side of the valley, and opened fire with field and mountain pieces and mus ketry, which they withdrew out of sight towards the head of the valley whenever my men advanced, I determined to hold the batteries on either [...]
[...] ketry, which they withdrew out of sight towards the head of the valley whenever my men advanced, I determined to hold the batteries on either side of the valley, and occupy the men in dismounting the guns, destroying the carriages, an I exploding the magazines, &c., after which, if not re quired to join the remainder of the force, I intended attacking the enemy's [...]
[...] the carriages, an I exploding the magazines, &c., after which, if not re quired to join the remainder of the force, I intended attacking the enemy's stockade at the head of the valley, and capturing his guns. “The former part of my intention was carried out, and the men had had half an hour for such dinner as they could get, when I received in [...]
[...] beneath that to the eastward. “I now considered it more than ever advisable to dislodge the enemy at the end of the valley, and the head of the Marine column appearing at this minute I sent a request to Lieutenant-Colonel Suther to co-operate for that object, to which he agreed, selecting the right side of the valley [...]
[...] “The Naval Brigade, in order to take the left, instantly but with some difficulty, crossed by the ridges between the rice fields, and on reaching the narrow roadway on the left of the valley commenced ascending it at the double. “The enemy had already commenced firing, but on observing from this [...]
[...] others were despatched to their aid. Their united force was greatly superior to that of the rebel or Ronin army, which y the last accounts was surrounded in a valley of the Yamatho district, and would be obliged to surrender, or be starved to death. [...]
[...] There is steam communication to the head of Lake Superior; thence to the Red River Settlement a road could be made without much difficulty From the Red River to Edmonton the way lies up the valley of the great. Saskatchewan River, navigable for 700 miles. This is described as a splen 3id and extensive valley, capable of supporting a large agricultural popu [...]
[...] either side like a wall, to a height of many thousand feet. From Jasper House to Tete Jaune Cache, at the head of the Fraser, the country around is rugged and mountainous, yet there is a valley through which a road or railway could be carried. From Tete Jaune Cache the road would pro bably take a direct course for Cariboo, by one of three valleys, as yet un [...]
[...] there a line of railway projected so tempting in all respects to the capitalist. It commences almost at the outset by running along the valley of the great Saskatchewan River, a wide level flat of fertile land, stretching away to the Rocky Mountains, and per fectly fitted for cultivation. The moment the difficultics of the [...]
[...] of China, the gold used in traffic for which the Chinese merchants once gained immense profits, comes from the mountains inhabited by an inde ndent people, who, driven by the Chinese from the plains and valleys, ave retired to the mountains in the interior of the island, where they pre serve their freedom. Notwithstanding that communication with them is [...]
[...] move, forward under the weight of the chains which pressed heavily on his hands and feet. After crossing the Muddy River, which here in a broad valley comes down from the north-west from its tortuous path among the hills, we skirted the hill range to Fang-shan, going through [...]
[...] history of this part of China. The rivers flow from the great plateau of Mongolia south-east to the sea, and such is the direc tion of the valleys. The limestone and coal and sandstone strata lie north-east and south-west, and such is the direction of the mountain chains and the coast lines from the Amoor to the Yang [...]
[...] cite. These we did not visit. They lay to the west, and our course was, for the time, northwards across two shoulders of the mountains into the Tsz-kia-wo valley. Five miles' travelling brought us here. A little stream called the Tsing-ho here winds its way to the south-east into the plain. Camels come down the [...]
[...] brought us here. A little stream called the Tsing-ho here winds its way to the south-east into the plain. Camels come down the valley with the better kinds of anthracite called Hung-mei, and proceed with it either to Lieu-li-ho, where it is consigned to boats for Pau-ting-fu, Tientsin, &c., or to the bridge at Lu-keu-ch'iau [...]
[...] low tiled roofs, and the approaches to them consist of marble steps and balustrades. The prospect from this cemetery embraces a lovely valley, with hills all round, and some villages inhabited by tillers of the soil and a few shepherds, who watch sheep and goats browsing on the grass-clad heights. [...]
[...] tillers of the soil and a few shepherds, who watch sheep and goats browsing on the grass-clad heights. Going up the valley we noticed traces of inundations, and were informed that last year, in the autumn, the water rose forty feet The houses are built on the hill sides, on spots sufficiently lofty to [...]
[...] ing roads in the hill district is much increased by these autumn floods, occasioned by the great extent of hill surface open to the rainfall, and the narrowness of the valleys. At a point thirteen miles from Tsz-kia-wo we reached Hung mei-chang, the “red anthracite depot.” Here the mules that [...]
[...] British Consulate, Port of Newchwang, 24th Oct., 1864. The silk region of the Newchwang Consular district may be described as the valleys of the Yang and other small rivers which empty themselves into the head or northern extremity of the Yellow Sea. ... But the region extends as far north as the parallel of Moukden, the hilly country lying [...]
[...] due east from that city, and which is drained by the affluent of the Leaou river which passes it, also producing silk. No other port of the Leaou valley produces silk, nor is any, so far as I can learn, produced in the hills which lie between it and the Great Wall. The silk region, as I have defined its limits, is about 100 miles broad [...]
[...] - - — The southern dealers arrive at the junk ports as the navigation opens about the end of March, and proceed into the silk valleys, where they give advances to the farmers. The first crop is usually taken to the ports, most of it to one called Fa-koo-shan,—about July. A second crop is [...]
[...] vances being in every case made to the cultivator. As to the quantity annually exported, I have not been able to get any information. My principal informant tells me that from one valley, which is however one of the most productive, about 80 cart loads are taken away annually. Each [...]
[...] fifteen cubic feet. cocoons from that one valley. [...]
[...] route, which has started from Rangoon for Bhamo and Momein to Talifoo, will terminate at Shanghai, and effect a complete survey and report of the Yangtsze valley. Be sides the names we have given in a previous issue, we un derstand that Mr. ALLEN, Interpreter, of the China Con [...]
[...] The Pepos, who j". “Kabaran,” are the medium of intercourse between the Chinese and the savages, and some 4,000 of them inhabit a fertile valley, which commences twenty five miles south of Kelung and extends to Suao Bay, a distance of fourteen miles; its popular name is Kapsulan, but it is officially [...]
[...] notices relating to them, “condensed and translated from the Komalan-ting Chih, the geographical and statistical description of the Komalan or Kapsulan valley,” and with a quotation from the T'ung-chény Tsi, which is “noteworthy for the sentiments expressed as to the proper method of dealing with the savages.” [...]
[...] head in those devastated districts. The manner in which orderly go vernment, trade and rebuilding in the ruined towns has revived in those departments in the Valley of the Yangtsze, which were left almost like a wilderness in 1865, leads me to hope for a similar reviving in the western provinces. [...]
