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red sandstone or brown stone.  The trees had centuries ago been cut or burned off & the [[strikethrough]] nalers [[/strikethrough]] rain had washed the whole country in to peaked red gullies.  The only vegetation was rice in the valleys where the soil could not erode much.  The red sandstone found in with conglomerate of same color continued all day with a [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] some streaks of white clay & shale.  [[Lu?]] Feng is in a wide valley filled by ripening rice fields.  Beyond the city the mountains rise in broken shoulders or faults of gigantic size like the faults or cliffs series of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado

(12) Left the temple at [[Lu or Tu?]] Feng at 7:30 am.  The trail crossed the river & then followed up the valley a short way.  From here we ascended the mountain or side of the valley for a league to an altitude of 8000 feet!  The road then continued on this 

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