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Pit 1, on the western slope of the sand-hill, in the midst of the ten old pits (map III).

Pit 2, on the northren side of the cornfield, near the bank of the River.

Pit 3, near the River on the northwestern side of the cornfield.

Pit 4, in the corn-field in the southwest of the chosen area. These four pits are located on the four corners of our chosen field and are diametrically opposite to each other. The distance of any two pits on the same side is about little over half a [[underlined]]li.[[/underlined]] At the close of the day's work, each pit reached to more than ten feet deep; the results are: pit 2,3,and 4 yielded nothing but yellow sandy soil(loess); in pit 1, however, the soil changed below the fifth foot, it includes grey soil, red potsherds. An older workman began to talk with me on intimate terms; he is one of the old diggers, all the ten pits nearby are his handwork. He said that no 'lettered bones' can be found beneath the sand-hill; but it is possible to find some bone arrowheads. He talked so positively and on the basis of real experience, that I began to feel that I had been cheated by the boy-guide whom I first hired during my reconnassance trip. The idea of turning over the sand-hill was totally dismissed away after this experience.

After the first day's work we began to feel that the method of circumscription is rather a far-fetched one and thought of improving it. At the same time we noticed that the native farmers have developed an interesting device of digging the bulbous root of a certain medical plant used by Chinese druggists, usually found nearby ten feet below the surface. It consists of a vertical iron

Transcription Notes:
Kept misspellings "northren," "reconnassance"