G58 Staff'- Surgeon K. II. Jones on Birth 



To the east of Wei Hai Wei, and twenty-six miles away, 

 is a bold headland fornied by a mass of high land, bordered 

 to the seaward by tall but erumbling clifl's, and known as the 

 North-East Promontory, or Shantung Promontor}^, the 

 most easterly land of China proper. 



The North-East Promontory is separated from tlie other 

 high land of the peninsula by a sandy plain of considerable 

 size, on which are numerous small and several large fresh- 

 Avater lagoons. 



A few miles to the north and west of Shantung 

 Promontory is Alceste Island, of small size, but possessing 

 considerable cliffs, and of interest as a breeding-place of 

 Lai'us crassirostris, the Bar-tailed Gull. 



Eight miles to the westward of Alceste Island and at 

 about a mile from the coast_, is Kiiuing Island, considerably 

 larger than the former and presenting fine cliffs on its 

 seaward aspect. 



Just opposite Kiming Island the mouth of a very large 

 and shallow salt-water tidal lagoon opens into the sea, the 

 shores of which in early autumn are thronged with Waders 

 journeying south. 



Some thirty miles to the south of North-East Promontory 

 is South-East Promontory, situated on the island of Mur 

 Tau and to the north side of Shi Tao Bay. At both North 

 and South-East Promontories are placed powerful lights, 

 M'hich at the right seasons of the year attract immense 

 numbers of migrants. 



The country in the vicinity of Wei Hai Wei is h\\\y, 

 barren, and rocky. The hills, which, on the mainland 

 opposite to Leu Kung Tao, rise to a height of 1343 feet, 

 are very rocky and barren, but planted in some places with 

 small pines and scrub oaks. The valleys are scored with 

 imllahs, worn away by the torrents which flow down from 

 the hills in the rainy season. 



The country is very badly wooded, almost the only trees 

 which attain any size, except just round the villages, are 

 those left to grow to maturity for semi-religious reasons. 

 Firs, Oaks, and Willows form the majority of those small 



