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Identifier: womaninantipodes00hall (find matches)
Title: A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hall, Mary
Subjects: Australasia -- Description and travel East Asia -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY
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CHINA HONG-KONG TO PEKING 281 during my stay in Hong-Kong, but I regret to say that Ifound no time to do so. The Hne ascends in varying gradients to a height of1300 feet, and offers a splendid panoramic view of the city,the harbour, and Kowloon Peninsula. We travelled up andup, past noble mansions set in luxuriant greenery of bam-boos and. flowering shrubs. On the slopes just aboveGovernment House are the Botanical Gardens which repaya closer inspection. They are small, only about sixteenacres in extent, but very beautiful: camellias, azaleas,hydrangeas, allarmardas, and poinsettias are exuberant toan extent seldom seen elsewhere in the open. An orna-mental fountain plays in the middle of a lakelet where goldand silver fish disport themselves, among rare specimens oftropical water-flora such as the pink and the white lotus,and the pale blue stela. There is also a greenhouse witha display of orchids and ferns. Now and again the cable-car traversed bridges over thewinding foot-path to t

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  • booksubject:East_Asia____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:London___Methuen
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