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as the eye could see, no hills were visible.  The country is one great rice field level without any terraces or small plots of [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] fields.
The second crop of rice was well grown & gave the landscape a light green lush appearance.  The villages [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] consisted usually of a few thatched huts as in the Philippines & not Chinese.  About these dwellings were clumps of trees & groves of bamboo.  Intersecting the country were [[find?]] broad mettled roads built by the French.  The landscape had a [[strikethrough]] b [[/strikethrough]] variegated appearance the [[strikethrough]] great [[/strikethrough]] broad green rice fields being interspersed by groves of trees in which the huts were hidden.  The trees were [[?acacias]] [[strikethrough]] & frep [[/strikethrough]] of various sorts, palms chiefly the slender areca with a few coco & fan palms.
Hanoi prooved to be a beautiful town of wide avenues with fine 

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