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seen & squares of garden vegetables, ^ [[Fields of cotton bushes from which the cotton had been plucked were numerous,]] fields of beans etc.  About 25 miles out we passed thru groves of mulberry trees of dwarf size.  The leaves are used for the food of silk worms which are raised here in great abundance.  The growers of the mulberries are not however often the raisers of silk worms but pick the leaves & take them by boat to the purchasers who harbour the worms.  The who plain is cut into a network of boat canals which gives the people cheap transportation for agricultural products.
Chang-an where we left the train is in the center of the mulberry district.  From this station we took small