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ACROSS THE HEART OF CHINA.

being born among the Chinese of the eastern and northern provinces, but it has not yet permeated the western provinces.

On February 25th I gazed down from the summit of the "Momein pass" of Margary upon a large flat-bottomed basin covered with paddy-fields, and a little later passed through the city gates of T'eng Yüeh.