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I set them. Apparently the Chinese have exterminated rodents in all the rice country. One of the natives said rabbits were common near the village [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] & flying squirrels in the hills. We departed at 7 A.M., weather cloudy. On way passed over a pine clad [[strikethrough]] hill [[/strikethrough]] ridge. Chestnuts & oaks were seen on the way. Flowers abundant, snapdragons, balsams, clematis, purple ranuncleus, Potentilla [[strikethrough]] etc. [[/strikethrough]] wild Sweet pea, etc.
Stopped at noon an hour at a small village for lunch. The road most of the way follows a large bright red river, a tributary of the Yangstze. The valley of the river is wide &  planted to rice. We reached Chu-Siang which is a large walled city on the river, at 4:30. We took a short cut road to the town & in crossing a single plank bridge my horse fell off onto the middle pillar & hung there on his belly &

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The text continues from 2 pages back, item 14. Ranuncleus = ranunculus? I agree with the above & have therefore taken Ranuncleus out of brackets.