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7.

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La.13cB1n | 3.00ew | 2.20 | 4.35 | 18-23/Nov. 
La.13cB2 | 4.70 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 19-26/Nov. 
La.13cN3 | 1.50 | 4.40sn | 2.45 | 23-30/Nov. 
La.13cB2nBn | 2.80ew | 3.10sn | 3.00 | 24-6/Nov-Dec
G.C.E. | 6.30ew | 3.10sn | 2.08-2.95 | 6-11/Dec. 
G.C.C. | 2.60ew | 5.Losn | 3.45 | 6-11/Dec. 
G.C.W. | 2.20 | 5.10 | 2.45 | 6-11/Dec. 
G.C.S | 3.60 | 6.20 | 3.50 | 6-11/Dec. 
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The work north of the village was started with two long trenches running NS; althou these two trenches are discontinuous at many points a great deal of observations were made on the underground conditions of the deposit from these trenches. The original plan was to start a systematic and complete turn-over of the entire ground north of the village. This is no doubt the only way to do full justice to this site. But unexpectedly we came across stubborn obstacles; the whole plan had to be changed and the trenching method had to adopted again. 

Althou we had to labor in a delicate situation and under extreme difficult circumstances all this season, important observations were made, and the results achieved were more than any could expect. These will be made clear in the following descriptions. 

C. The Extent of Yin-hsu. 

There is perhaps very little question that the extent [[strikethrough]]of the remains[[/strikethrough]] of the Shang Dynasty remains covers a larger space than the area of the village of Hsiao-t'un. The village is bound on the north and the east by the Huan River, which looks very much like a natural boundary of Yin-Hsu as well as the modern village. But this river also represents a great destructive force. It has already been ob-[[served]]