Ningpo to Shanghai in 1857/Foo-yang to the Dung-ling
A short distance north of the city is a small temple at which a traveller could quarter, and one mile N. by W. is the village of Leong-van-ha.
Thence, two lē W.N.W. is Sing-jow a long village of 1,500 families inhabited principally by straw paper makers. A branch of the Tsien-tang is here crossed by a fine one arched bridge, another branch running to the northward for a distance of 40 or 50 lē. Some excellent peppermint lozenges are procurable here at the cheap rate of a cash each.
From Sing-jow to Kwong-Djean the distance, in a N.W. ly direction,is four miles; though, all around, the plain appears covered with straggling hamlets; the white washed houses, with their step like gables, appearing at a distance like gothic priories. The people of this quarter speak in high terms of the security they enjoy from plunder or attack from free booters. Bee hives are to be seen in this quarter;—and honey is procurable at a cheap rate. Five lē N. W. from Kwong-Djean is Suchang a village of 200 families, and two miles further on in the same course is Song-jin, a very old fashioned little place, the inhabitants being similarly peculiar.
Five lē N. of Song-jin is Yang-ko-fah a village of 100 families, and 2 lē further on is Cheensoling of 200 families. Thence to Cho-keu, a hamlet of 50 families, is a short couple of lē, and a little over a similar distance is Loo-moe of 200 families. Three miles further on, still in a northerly direction, is the Dung-Ling, or pass marking the boundary between the Foo-Yang and Yu-hong Districts, passing over which, the traveller descends very abruptly by some large kilns for burning lime. The black lime stone rock here is almost perpen dicular;—the strata being intersected with streaks of white and red porphyry and carbonate of lime, in lines running longitudinally to the E.N.E. Blasting does not appear to be understood, and each block for the kiln is cut out with the cold chisel.