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point to the city, which heavy laden boats can reach, and hence it is a spot of considerable importance; there is a substantial stone bridge over the stream, and several shops and other buildings near at hand. At the mouth of the stream is a tolerably good landing-place, to which the Ningpo boats come in great numbers to all hours of the day, when the tide permits, (for at low tide the bed of the stream as far as the sluice is always dry); hence this is a place of much bustle. A respec- table house of entertainment for the travelers who pass to and fro, is in the vicinity, with its sign at the side of the door, giving notice that all customary viands are procurable there.
About a quarter of a mile above the sluice, the stream divides into two main branch- es, one running to the east, and the other to the northward, and just beyond the separation, the streams are crossed by two handsome stone bridges. The span of one is formed by long slabs of stone with a central support, the other consists of a well spanned large arch, formed of stones hollowed on the inner and outer faces to the slopes required.
The other branches of the stream are crossed by smaller bridges, some flat, others formed by flat stones, the upper one slightly over- lapping the lower, to the top of the arch; one or two are also made with the wedge-like stones used in European bridges, but here there is nothing like a keystone, at the point of junction of the two sides. Great pains are taken at the sluice to dam up the water, and throw it over the flat land, so that the greatest part of the surface is usually co- vered with water, and the whole face of the country is very damp and muddy, rendering it at all times impossible to walk across the fields with comfort. Passengers must confine themselves to the causewys, which though narrow, not more than 3 or 4 feet wide, are kept in good order and well paved with granite; indeed were the foot paths not made with slabs of stone or well paved, they would be completely washed away during the heavy rains.
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The passes in this chwang are Heaoufung ling (曉峯嶺) the west Beacon Hill, into Yentsang; Maou ling() head of a small tributary valley,-leading to the point of junction of Chaeho and Yentsang. Tsing ling(), directly north of the town, leading into the tributary valley just named: Chaeho ling,— (F) eastward of north from the town, and hid from it by a hilly spur,-leading into Chaeho and so directly across the ísland to Ma aou: Yătan ling (†) a low pass, leading into Pĭhtseuen, probably the shortest road to the sea on the north side :
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