CHAPTER VI._Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc.

First Visit to Ning-po.--The Bridge of Boats.--City and

Pagoda.--Medical Missionary.--Temperature--Chinese Mode of

keeping themselves warm.--Charcoal Stoves.--My Lodgings.--Chinese

Gamblers.--Description of Shops.--Silks and Embroidery.--Jade

Stone.--Cotton Printing.--Rope making.--Curiosity Shops

and Contents--"Furniture Street" and Furniture.--Banking

Establishment.--No prospect of Foreign Trade.--Temples, and

Devotion of some of the People.--Dwarfed Trees.--Mode of Dwarfing

explained.--Mandarins' Gardens visited and described.--View from

Northern Hills.--Agriculture.--Native Flora of these Hills.--Graves of

the dead.--Collins exposed.

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