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gardens and nurseries. There were hedges of 
single camellias ((7. sasanqua ), white and red, and 
China roses, all in full bloom, although it was now 
late in November. Many evergreen trees were 
there, clipped into fanciful shapes; and the in- 
dispensable flowering plums and cherries were in 
great abundance, although now leafless and having 
put on their wintry garb. 
We paid a visit to a number of tea-houses and 
gardens; and from the way in which they were 
arranged and planned, no doubt they are patro- 
nized by thousands during the spring and summer 
seasons, when picnic-loving and pleasure-seeking 
Yedoites go out to enjoy themselves. Everywhere 
we were politely received, and tea pressed upon us 
by the proprietors of the gardens. 
We were now some ten or twelve miles from the 
foreign Legations, and declining day warned us to 
hasten our return. On our way back we followed 
for some distance the course of the river. There 
is a fine broad embankment all the way along the 
left bank, which we could not help contrasting 
with that which is now being formed at Pimlico 
and Chelsea. But the Yedo embankment has 
probably been in existence for many generations 
— a monument of the foresight and enterprise of 
this extraordinary people. 
In this part of Yedo there is a celebrated Budd- 
hist temple named Eco-ying , which was erected to 
the memory of 180,000 human beings who lost 
their lives in one night about 150 years ago. As 
