At the top of this hill, lushly bambooed, stood the temple […]

Clinal variation in the size of the secondary sexual character may be due to the effects of the Fisher or the handicap process.

‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […] .’

Parakeet Isle or Yingwuchou: in the middle of the river to the south-west of Hanyang. It disappeared during the Ming period to re-emerge in the Ching dynasty in Kang Hsi’s reign. It became famous in the Han dynasty when a great feast was held there and parakeets brought in.