THE COLLEGE OF TEE ]YIJITE DEER. 



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some two hundred feet into the rocky bed of the rushing stream, up 

 whose course we were wending our way in search of a cool haven from 

 the heat of the plains. As we journeyed, the sun rose, the cool of the 

 morning gave way to the heat of the on-coming day, and we earned our 

 ascent, if not our bread, by the sweat not only of our brow, but of back 

 and thigh as well. 



The toilsome ascent proved too much to allow the journey to be con- 

 tinued without a rest at Killing, and we succumbed to the sleep-in- 

 ducing effects of the mountain air of central China. Killing is a long 

 valley, with three side valleys, running about northwest and southeast, 



View secured on ascending Ruling Pass. 



and from the eastern slope, through the gap at the upper end and over 

 the backs of the gigantic elephant-like hills that form the western slope, 

 magnificent sunsets are to be seen. Here a concession has been granted 

 so that foreign residents may have a retreat from the summer heat of 

 the lower land, and some eight hundred people of various nationalities 

 annually find refreshment in this valley. The bungalows are all simple, 

 yet comfortable, one-story affairs, most of them of hewn stone taken 

 from the adjacent hills which stand bare to view, the only attempt at 

 covering being stubby foliage of no great beauty and of little height. 

 While resting here we made a half clay's excursion along one spur 

 of the Lii Shan, down to where several water-driven incense mills were 



