Ssŭ-ch'uan

In the typical pagoda of the south-eastern provinces the successive stages decrease both in height and diameter; but as the Ssŭ-ch’uan border is passed cases begin to occur in which the fifth or sixth stories are of the same breadth, or as it seems, of even a greater breadth, than the base,[…]

The silver earrings worn by the women of the Chin-chʻuan, a border district of Ssŭ-ch’uan inhabited by Tibetans, are shown in fig. 2.

Great though the quantity of silk produced in the province of Ssŭ-ch’uan is, the output might be quadrupled if some means could be devised for delaying the hatching of the silkworm eggs.