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Lungan Fu Long. Sat. is possibly the smallest and most poverty stricken provincial city in the whole of China. The town is situated in a small basin like expansion of the river valley & is built on a flat silted up by the river. It is surrounded by a good wall which on the northern side is extended to the top of the hillside some 600 ft above the town. Practically no house [?] on the hillside. The river wall is well bounded but this is broken in many places. Willow trees (Salix alba) occur along this river front. From the distance Lungan looks a picturesque town with its [?] temples and trees but on entering the town its extreme poverty is very apparent. There is no suburb unless a struggling street along the river [front?] be dignified as such. The Prefect of Lungan now resides at [?] Yu Hsein which we left from days since.
On leaving this [?] poor & dilapidated place our road plunged almost immediately into a narrow gorge.
Some six miles above Lungan the [Fu?] is joined by a large tributary which we crossed by a rather primitively constructed river suspension bridge 36 yards long. A road [ascends this ?] [?????] 10 mile [?] & from there a mountain road lead to Wan Hsien in [?] [?] [?] there is a [?] village [?] [?] in [Tu ssu?]
From Lungan to [Ki Tu Pu?] - 20 miles. the road is not only difficult but highly dangeorus in many places. In many places we had to round the face of cliffs by a
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