AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
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Art. I.—Sketch of a Journey from Canton to oe through 
China ; by Aubert 8. Broxmore, A.M. 
[Read before the Royal Geographical Society of London, Dee. 8, 1867, and before 
the Boston Society of Natural History, Feb. 19, 1868.] 
7% the 7th of PSUS 1866, I left Canton, in com mage abi 
Mr. C. L, Weed, photographer at Hongkong, and R 
_ of Canton, on a journey through the Sst: uF Kwang- 
tung and the eastern part of rai Se Our course, at first, 
was westward, for about sixty miles, when we reached the head 
of the great ‘Delta of the Bikiang, whose low, fertile fields 
spread out widely along the river banks, and support a most 
dense population. Along ee borders of these low lands, rise ser- 
rated mountains—some s attaining an elevation of fifteen 
hundred to two thousan eet teers rp ridges and project- 
ing spurs coming out in strong relief, on account of the scanty 
‘ vegetation on their sides. To one who has been journeying in 
tropical lands, and especially among the luxuriant forests of 
Sumatra ,, these mountains appear surprisingly bare, and only 
the more so, when he considers that he is but on the verge of 
the temperate zone. 
This nakedness appears to be a universal characteristic of 
the mountain scenery in China, but it is not the faultof the 
soil or the climate, for wherever the little pines have been suf- 
fered to rise, they show a vigorous growth. The cause of this 
universal devastation i is the frequent rebellions that hae swept 
back and forth over the whole empire, like a desolating fl 
Am. Jour. Scr.—Sgconp Serres, Vou. XLVI, No. 136.—Juzy, 1868. 
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