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Cervus sp. inc. Large deer are said to inhabit the hills, but I never 



saw any. 

 Cervulus reevesi (?). Examples of a species of Cervulus are often 



brought to market at Foochow. 

 Manis dalmanni. 



Climate. — The climate of Foochow is decidedly moist. It 

 rains in the district during six months of the year_, the clear 

 cool season hardly lasting three months. The rainy season 

 begins early in January, and lasts more or less till April. 

 The summer is very hot ; in July and August heavy thunder- 

 storms are of almost daily occurrence. September is hot and 

 often rainy, and the heat lasts well into October. From the 

 end of October to the beginning of January the weather is 

 very fine, much resembling that of the winter of the Riviera 

 in Southern Europe. 



I regret that I am unable to produce a sketch of N.E. 

 Kwangtung ; but a glance at the map will show Swatow to 

 be just within the Tropic of Cancer. A brief notice of this 

 locality may be of interest. 



The Swatow bay is partly closed at its entrance by the hilly 

 island, called, from its shape. Double Island, and the passages 

 left for in- and out-going vessels are consequently very 

 narrow. On entering the bay we have on the right an 

 extensive plain, intersected by numerous creeks and mouths 

 of the Chao-chow-fu river, which is bounded on the north- 

 west and north by the Chao-chow-fu hills. On the left we 

 have Kakchioh Island, consisting of a mass of granitic hills 

 reaching to about 1000 feet in height, scantily planted with 

 stunted pines. The town of Swatow, which is of recent 

 growth, is situated about five miles up the bay, and is prin- 

 cipally built on land reclaimed from the sea. The bay, which 

 up to this point has been wide and. more or less circular in 

 shape, is now hemmed in by the Kakchioh hills on the one 

 side and Swatow on the other, the distance from shore to 

 shore being only about a mile across ; it then expands again 

 and forms a large area full of shallows, bordered on the north- 

 east by numerous lagoons and marshes, which extend, far 

 behind Swatow, and is closed in the west, about fifteen miles 

 from Swatow, by a marshy region, beyond which the moun- 



