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Long Granite Slabs forming a Simple Bridge. 



sunset, we passed under the Garden Bridge, from which many pairs 

 of curious eyes watched our departure, the sturdy little tug puffing 

 continuously and tooting spasmodically as it entered the Whangpu 

 Eiver to pass along the length of the Bund and native city wharves, 

 thus affording an unexcelled view of Shanghai's glory. After rounding 

 a bend toward the southeast our course was southward up the river 

 to Sankong, from there west as far as the walled city of Sungkiang, 

 and further, winding around in a west by south direction, we passed 

 out of Kiangsu province into Chehkiang and came to Kashing, a 

 walled city with a customs station under the management of the 

 Hangchow customs. Here we entered the Grand Canal and followed 

 its southwesterly course through several unimportant but crowded 

 places, at one of which Samen, or Shih Men, we left the launch-train 

 and proceeded in a native boat southeasterly toward Haining by means 

 of the by-way canals which traverse the delta as frequently as cross- 

 roads are found in the country districts of western lands. At Samen, 

 the Grand Canal proper makes a right-angled turn to the west as far 

 as Dongsi, or Tang Hsi, where another right-angled turn gives it a 

 straight course southward to Hangchow, its terminus. 



All along we found the canals full of life, large boats laden with 

 firewood passing down to Shanghai, while smaller boats with market 

 supplies and other articles were met plying between intermediate 

 points. Large rafts of fir or bamboo, sometimes stretching as far as 

 one could see, excited wonder as to how four or at most five men 



At a Bend in the Grand Canal. 



