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a house rat.  The road crossed the Yung-Chang river on a suspension bridge moving between great cliffs at a very narrow place, the head of a canyon thru [[strikethrough]] wil [[strikethrough]] which the river leaves the valley.  The formation here is limestone & the soil on the hills a bright brick red & that in the valley a light brown [strikethrough]] loam [[/strikethrough]] clay soil. [[strikethrough]] Tho [[/strikethrough]] One of the common trees on the hills is a twin-leaved Erythrina like tree, [[strikethrough]] other [[/strikethrough]] another is a pinnate leaved ash like one with large green acid fruit having a single [[strikethrough]] le [[/strikethrough]] stone in the center.  The common pine is also seen here.  The hills are clothed by a variety of trees in park like arrangement with long luxuriant brown grass everywhere.  The road climbed intermittently all day & at 5 P.M. we made camp somewhere near the village of Ta-shin-tan at an altitude of 6000 feet I estimated.  There was a spring here & [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] in a ravine forest with wet black loam where rodents runways could