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Illustrated with 53 plates photographic reproductions, each protected with tissue guards with text explanations in Chinese and French. A remarkable photographic album of the Lung-hai Railway, full of wonderful views of Henan, including "Hui Shan Si", "Shao Lin Si", "Song Shan","Yu Dai Shan", "Loess Ravine", "The Yellow River in Shanchow", "Cotton Loading","The Main Road beyond the Railway Terminus", "Old Futian Temple", "Lung Men", "Sze Shui - Yu Tsing Kung", and others.
The Longhai railway (Longhai Tielu), formerly romanized as the Lunghai railway, was a major arterial East-West railway in China.
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