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Stage 10. Yii-lin Fu (25 miles). General direction : 

 N.E. Road very sandy and going very hard, 

 otherwise same as preceding stages. Just before 

 reaching Yii-hn Fu strike river bed and turn 

 S. 4 miles to the city. 



Yii-lin Fu, Latitude (South Gate) 38° 16' 54". Longi- 

 tude 109° 44' 59" (Clark). 



ITINERARY No. 3. 



Yii-lin Fu to Pao-te Chou. 



Distance, 136 miles ; 5 stages. 



Between these two places there is only a mule track. 



In places where this skirts deep ravines in the loess it 



is rather dangerous. The country is very barren and 



food and fodder are scarce. 



Stage 1. Tuan-ch'iang (20 miles). General direction : 

 N. Sandy road all day. Hard going. Midday 

 halt at Chang-lo-pu. Deep loess gullies make 

 road rather dangerous towards end of day's 

 journey. Tuan-ch'iang is an inn ; there are 

 no others. 



Stage 2. Kao-chia-pu (23 miles). General direc- 

 tion : N.E. First part of road dangerous 

 owing to treacherous path along deep loess 

 ravines. The road crosses the Wall and 

 makes detour into sandy desert. Midday halt 

 at T'uoh-nieh-tzii-kou. Road follows stream 

 from here eastwa.d to Kao-chia-pu, inside the 

 Wall. Good inns. 



Stage 3. Shen-mu Hsien (33 miles). General direc- 

 tion : N.E. Road less dangerous, though still 

 sandy and tedious. It follows stream bed, 

 ascending hill to Pei-li-pu, descending other 



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