CHALFANT: EARLY CHINESE WRITING 23 
along waste lands,** bounded by a road, through [said lands] up a cliff by a pool; thence across So Mei Ling and 
Kang-So ® along a path, and thence by the former road to the highway ; thence east, bounded by Tsi’s eastward line, 
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to a ‘thistle.’ Both characters have other meanings that are inapplicable here. ® (#) resembles Bg (%) 
ai, “artemisia.”? Full form for 36 is R. Here contracted. 
ai px f& (So Mei Ling) and jj) AR (Kang So) are probably local names of ridges, 
