[…] money problems and refusal to supply them with British coins were two big reasons why the thirteen colonies rebelled and declared their independence.

I am really at loose ends about this choice; I am between the proverbial rock and hard place.

In Sijian'gou, in Jiyuan County, Henan, a late Western Han tomb yielded a representation of a new subject in Han sculpture, a glazed earthenware image identified as the mythical tree on Mount Peach Capital (cat. no. 28).

Keelung and Tamsui in the north of the island are the principal harbours ; the former town partly owes its prosperity to the proximity of some coal beds, which the Chinese have for a long time worked ' in the most primitive fashion ;' shafts were abandoned from having become flooded....The country round Keelung is charming in its rich green dress of bamboo groves and paddy ; but the odours of the town, which Mr. Taintor has stigmatised as the ' filthiest town in the universe,' are probably unrivalled.