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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



A Pair of Crude but Useful Structures 



solid granite approaches on either side, having sometimes a simple open 

 rest house, washed red on the outside, or a small group of houses at 

 one end, about which cluster a few large trees, they often present 

 charming pictures, especially when a bright day allows every out- 

 line to be reflected from the water and the observer is sufficiently 

 distant to miss the inevitable dirt of a Chinese rural dwelling place. 

 So-called river "gunboats," usually tied up in a shady spot near 



