FEI-YUEH-LING PASS 175 
any trouble, and the ascent of the pass Tai-hsiang-ling- 
kwan, 9,270 feet above the sea, was made. From the 
‘top of the pass there is a fine view of the snowy ranges 
to the westward. Ching-chi-hsien, at an elevation of 
4,750 feet, was seen down below, and reached in the 
evening. It is notorious for high winds, and on this 
occasion its character was well kept up, for it blew a 
gale and was a particularly stormy night. I found a 
good inn, and the officials were civil. 
On April 23, after a very fatiguing march over bad 
and stony roads on a very hot day, I reached Ni-tou in 
the evening. This place lies at the head of a very deep 
and stony ravine. The ground is much cut up by small 
watercourses, which occur in great numbers, leading 
off the slopes of the mountains into the ravine. In spite 
of the stony nature of the surface there is much vegeta- 
tion, and I subsequently had a collector here, I joined 
the road traversed the previous year at Fu-chuang. 
The Fei-yueh-ling Pass was reached at 2.30 the next 
day, and at the summit I found a very fine mauve 
primula in bloom. I reached Hua-lin-ping in the even- 
ing and stopped for the night. 
Lu-ting-chiao was passed through on April 25, 
and I went on to Cha-pa, where I was most kindly 
received again by the missionaries, with whom I stayed 
for the night. It was a hard and dangerous march, the 
