Identifier: travelsinnorthce00bircuoft (find matches)
Title: Travels in north and central China
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Birch, John Grant, 1846 or 7-1900
Subjects: China -- Description and travel
Publisher: London Hurst and Blackett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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TOP STATION AT NEW RAPID. slight mishaps but without much trouble. Gangs ofextra trackers, largely composed of boys, girls, andeven young children, some of whom looked pinchedand hungry, were employed. A little village ofthatched timber-and-lath cottages had sprung upon the fore shore below high-water level to accom-modate these. The strata here are inclined, and consist of super-imposed beds of sandstone, over one of which, orone of shale, or of marl, the top layers had slid.
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o p <o< QW o £4CO WU-SHAN TO WAN-HSIEN. 155 Close to the sugar-cane fields I came on a rusticbut substantial cane-mill. The rollers, made of stoneand vertical, stood in a solid framing and weredriven by a travelling beam, drawn by two buffa-loes. The juice ran by a pipe into a large reservoirunder which a gentle heat was applied, then intoanother slightly hotter, and thence was ladled tothe top pan of a battery under which the heat wasmuch greater. When sufficiently boiled it wasladled into large circular or square moulds linedwith paper, and it cooled into clayey sugar, notvery sweet. The canes were poor and small, theclimate not being, I suppose, sufficiently tropicalfor good sugar-growing. The owners were verycivil and allowed me to see everything and totake a photograph of the mill. Since leaving the Ichang gorge we had seen nofishermen, but here I saw first a heron, and wasthen not surprised to see fishermen with their long-handled nets and boats with drop nets. On thecres

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