The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China, Mongolia and TibetCentury Company, 1891 - Broj stranica: 399 |
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... streams were numbers of small flour - mills in which the nether stone revolved while the upper one was held in place by chains fastened to the side of the building . The next town of any importance I passed through was Ping - ting Chou ...
... streams were numbers of small flour - mills in which the nether stone revolved while the upper one was held in place by chains fastened to the side of the building . The next town of any importance I passed through was Ping - ting Chou ...
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... stream , then covered with floating ice about a foot thick . On the Shan- hsi side were only a few hovels in which lived the ferry- men , and near - by , on the top of a loess cliff , the ruins of an old fort ; while on the right bank ...
... stream , then covered with floating ice about a foot thick . On the Shan- hsi side were only a few hovels in which lived the ferry- men , and near - by , on the top of a loess cliff , the ruins of an old fort ; while on the right bank ...
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... streams which cross it . The basin of the Wei ho , in which this part of the province lies , has been for thousands ... stream , with a very sluggish current . Near the top of these hills was a little archway in the upper part of which ...
... streams which cross it . The basin of the Wei ho , in which this part of the province lies , has been for thousands ... stream , with a very sluggish current . Near the top of these hills was a little archway in the upper part of which ...
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... stream flows to the west of it , and is spanned by a fine stone bridge with a very pom- pous name . The business part of the city is the suburbs . This is generally the case with Chinese towns in the north ; merchants by transacting ...
... stream flows to the west of it , and is spanned by a fine stone bridge with a very pom- pous name . The business part of the city is the suburbs . This is generally the case with Chinese towns in the north ; merchants by transacting ...
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... stream which flowed through it , but had received no satisfactory answer . At the inn at Hui - ning it was my first question to the inn- keeper , and then I learnt that its name was nothing less than Ch'i - shih - ehr - tao chiao - pu ...
... stream which flowed through it , but had received no satisfactory answer . At the inn at Hui - ning it was my first question to the inn- keeper , and then I learnt that its name was nothing less than Ch'i - shih - ehr - tao chiao - pu ...
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