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Stahel's calvary division moved from Warrington, viâ Gainesville, to Fairfax Court-house.

In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope.

As to the roads into Manchuria, recent researches prove absolutely that the mediæval Chinese envoys to the Nüchêns followed the present high-road round from Peking, through Shan-hai Kwan, Mukden, Kirin or Changchun, to Alchuk and Sansing. So with the modern Corean road from Söul, or P’ing-yang, by way of I-chou, whence either viâ Mukden and the Manchu road, or viâ the Fêng-hwang road and Kin-chou, where the latter joins the former : these were the roads of ancient times. The Kitan roads I have been over, for the most part, myself ; they are simply the high-roads from Peking through the various passes of the Great Wall, and to this day the caravans of laden camels or mules, the droves of horses, the herds and flocks driven in for sale may be seen coming through in the winter season exactly as they came 2,000 years ago.

Mr. Sprent and Mr. Turley pursued their journey down the Yalu, thence to Newchwang, while I came due west viâ Kuantien to Liaoyang.

To the right are the Lignes de Normandie (England viâ Dieppe or Le Havre).

The foundries produced, in 1909, 74,000 tons of pig-iron which were exported viâ Shang-hai to Japan and even to America.