Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 32
CARRIAGE OF MERCHANDISE. THE MODE OF CARRYINGOIL AND WINE In wicker baskets lined with oiledpaper of extraordinary toughness, whichis much used everywhere. The oil isobtained from various oil seeds, thetough paper by macerating bamboo.Beneath the bashet will be noticed along cylinder. This is the… … THE MODE OF CARRYINGOIL AND WINE WHEELBARROW TRAFFICON THECHENGTU PLAIN. This Chengtu Plain, with its 2,500square miles of country and 4,000,000population, is perhaps the best culti-vated and most fertile spot in the world.It owes its fertility to the work of twoengineers, who, more than two…
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