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[[encircled]]18[[/encircled]]Dropped anchor at daylight at mouth of Min River to wait for tide to turn as river is two shallow for the [[Haitan ?]] Entered the mouth of the River at 10 A.M. + steamed up. Water a dirty brown. Hills bordering river terraced to summit by hundreds of short terraces on which tea was formerly grown but they are now abandoned owing to want of market for this grade of tea. Valleys given over to rice fields. Here & there were villages with many junks in the foreground. [[?]] of stone walls + cement ramparts stood at entrance of the harbour. Some of the mountains were hight about 4,000 feet but without forests only green, short grass on their summits. Prof. C.R. Kellogg met me at Pagoda Island where the steamer anchors as the river is too shallow to go farther