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the solid forest is about finished, the open grassy hillsides predominating.  Rainy all morning.  Very few birds seen along route.  
At La-Ha-Ti Station the forest had entirely disappeared.  Chinese cultivated fields were seen above here on the vertical hillsides.  The Chinese have evidently cut off all the forest, the absence of which is artificial.  Remnents of forest are to be seen in the stream gulches & on a few rocky hilltops.  We reached the broken tunnel at 11:30 at station of Want tang.  At this point a slender waterfall 300 feet high dropped over a cliff within a few feet of the R.R. & just on the entrance to the tunnel.  Below the waterfall was [[strikethrough]] another [[/strikethrough]] a stone bridge washed away by the waterfall stream; the rails & [[strikethrough]] tined [[/strikethrough]] ties crossing the break [[strikethrough]] & rest on [[/strikethrough]] supported by thin air.  We took several snaps of the falls & men carrying [[?boards/boats]].

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Should we be making word breaks to preserve searchability, even when author doesn't? I'm not sure exactly what you mean, since I didn't see hyphenated word breaks on this page, but the instructions say "if a word is hyphenated because it goes across two lines, type it out as one word." If a word is split between two pages, I use the "go to next page" function (the little arrow pointing to the right at the bottom on each page) to go the next page to verify what the word is. I then use the "go to previous page" to return and type the whole word on the page where it begins. On the next page I make a note that the word fragment at the top has been transcribe on the page before.--thomasc 2. I think put in the word breaks. Reviewed