Stage 2. Hsi-féng-chén (20 miles). General Direction : W. for 8 miles then S. 
A good, much-used cart-road with easy gradients, passing through 
a prosperous and well-cultivated country. The road ascends easily up 
the plateau, passing Miao-ling at 3 miles, Hsiao-lo-p’u at 4 miles, 
Hsia-chia at 5 miles, and Tang-chia at 7 miles, and at 8 miles turns S. 
and runs over a level plain, passing Yi-ma-kuan (9 miles), Ts’ao-fan-p’u 
(12 miles), Hua-chia-k’éng (14 miles), Li-chia (15 miles), and Yen-ssti- 
miao (18 miles). 
Hsi-féng-chén is a prosperous, walled village, peopled chiefly by 
immigrants from Ssiich’uan and Shensi. From the village, roads run 
N. to Huan Hsien, S. to Féng-hsiang Fu, and E. to Ning Chou and 
Pin Chou (Shensi). 
Stage 3. T’ai-pei-ch’éng (15 miles). General Direction: W. 
A good cart-road runs W. along the plateau passing Ma-chia at 24 
miles, and at 5 miles becomes an ordinary mule-track, descending, fairly 
steeply in places, to the valley of the P’u Ho and crossing by a foot- 
bridge to the right bank at Ts’ai-yiian (10 miles). Thence the road 
ascends fairly easily up a loess ridge to T’ai-pei-ch’éng (70 families), 
passing en route through Yang-ts’un (11 miles), and Liu-chia-kou (13 
miles). All the country passed through is well cultivated. 
Stage 4. Chén-yiian Hsien (144 miles). General Direction: W. by S. 
From camp the road ascends by a mule-track to a small stream— 
the Chiao-ko Ho—which is crossed at Pao-chia (3 miles). Thence the 
road ascends fairly easily upa plateau, passing T’ang-chia-wan (5 miles), 
and reaching the summit at Mao-chia-p’u (8 miles). After running 
level along the plateau for 3 miles, the road descends to the valley of 
the Chien-tsai Ho, on the left bank of which stands Chén-yiian, a 
prosperous walled town, containing a Protestant Mission Station. 
Carpets are woven here on a small scale. 
Stage 5. Yang-shu-wan (rg miles). General Direction: W. by N. 
The road ascends the left bank of the Chien-tsai Ho, through fairly 
well-cultivated country, passing Wu-li-kou (3 miles) and Chiu-lung 
(6 miles). Just after passing K’ai-pien (12 miles), the road bends S.W. 
and passing Chi-chia (13 miles) and Ch’én-chia-p’ing (16 miles), reaches 
Yang-shu-wan (80 families). 
Stage 6. Liu-chia-hua (174 miles). General Direction: W. 
A good mule-road continues to ascend the left bank of the Chien-tsai 
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