In the early Ming Dynasty, Pingjin county seat (its ruin is located near the Chengxi Village of Xiaodian District) was severely flooded, then the county office had to move onto the ruin of the Ancient Jinyang City of Fenxi and changed back to the old name of Taiyuan County at the 8th Year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1375).

Beside the need for stronger criteria for the mollic horizons an “intermediate” horizon between the mollic and the ochric is proposed, for better differentiation between agricultural soils and to provide useful information for regional and global carbon calculations.

A plan somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.

The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised.