, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47: He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]

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Ch'i-men county in late T'ang times exemplifies this development. The land in Ch'i-men was so limited by its hilly setting that almost seven-tenths of the 5,400 households in the county drew their livelihood from tea manufacture and bsuinesses connected with it. Government income too was obtained from the taxes on tea manufacture. Among tea merchants from other cities, the teas produced in Ch'i-men were much reputed for their excellent flavor and color, but in spite of the increasing demand, natural barriers-especially the Ch'ang-men rapids at Ch'i-men River, thirteen li southwest of the county capital-prevented the tea cargoes from being efficiently shipped in bulk.

In the village of Wreay, five miles south of Carlisle, with the Lake District to one side and the Pennines to the other, can be found a strange, almost Druidical church adorned throughout with carved pinecones.