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SOIL AND EOCKS OF DISTRICT. Chap. XIV. 



As we were only a few miles distant from tlie 

 end of the canal — a place called Ne-ka-loo — we 

 sent the boats on, and determined to walk across 

 the country ourselves. On our way we passed 

 through a large village named Te-sye-mun, re- 

 markable for a neat and well-finished mausoleum 

 erected in the dynasty of the Mings for a minister 

 of state — the same, I believe, to whom the temple 

 is dedicated on the hill inside of the city of Yu- 

 yaou. 



The low country through which we passed had 

 the same rich appearance which I have already 

 mentioned, but the hills, which seemed jutting into 

 it in all directions, were comparatively barren. 

 They were chiefly composed of porphyritic granite 

 mixed with crystals of quartz of a very coarse 

 description. 



About midday we arrived at the little village of 

 Ne-ka-loo, which is situated on the shores of the 

 bay of Hang-chow, and took up our quarters in a 

 Chinese inn. Our landlord seemed a bustling, good 

 sort of a man, and did everything in his power 

 to make us comfortable. He informed ns the 

 passage-junks by which we had to cross the bay 

 had not arrived from Kan-poo, but would probably 

 make their appearance in the afternoon, and if we 

 would agree to pay six dollars we could have a 

 junk to ourselves, and could start to cross the 

 bay at eleven o'clock that night, when the flood- 

 tide came in. Assenting to this arrangement, we 

 left our servants to prepare an early dinner in 



