A, S. Bickmore—Journey through China. 7 
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Our daily routine was to walk in the forenoon until the sun 
got high, and again in the afternoon until the boat reached a 
safe anchorage, “Mr. Graves collecting plants and sketching a 
map of the river, and I gathering geological specimens, ascer- 
taining the dip of the strata and the direction of the elevations, 
details too numerous to be given in full in this hasty skete 
On the evening after leaving Pingloh we were following the 
river as it bent around a high bluff, when we suddenly found 
ourselves on the edge of a valley, ten or twelve miles broad, 
and extending farther than we could see to the right and left. 
In every direction this whole valley was perfectly bristling with 
sharp peaks of limestone. The strata of this limestone were 
nen hor 
hundred and ninety-two separate peaks. The highest I judge 
- Tose 1200 feet above the plain,* but even this did not represent 
the original depth of the deposit. These dark rocks, rising ab- 
ruptly up from the low, level lands at their feet, ‘contrasted 
most strikingly with the bright light green of the ‘fertile plain 
and made this view the most picturesque and remarkable seen 
on thi w is to be enjoyed among the 
contorted and fractured Devonian rocks on the banks of the 
Tchussovaya, on the western flanks of the Ural; and it is prob- 
ably to this same Devonian persed that these ‘limestones, and 
those previously mentioned, 
On passing out of this osha region, a section was ob- 
tained a little above the market-place, Hingping, where these 
limestones were seen resting (conformably as near as I could 
ascertain) on the grits that at Kokhau were in them found 
resting on granite. 
About Kweilin, the capital of the province, the valleys are 
much broader and heer cultivated; and large w water-wheels, 
ing. 
angle, and being up the w c and pour it intoa fom as 
they reach the ghost pan ad begin to descend on the re- 
_ volving wheel. 
A small pagoda, perched on the top of a ragged rock, and a 
* As we could not learn that this peak was ee any particular name, I 
Propose to name it Longfellow'’s Peak. This and all the surrounding limestone 
pacing appear like high columns that once seaiporiad the roof of one }imanee 
