Show scenes in asia alic following is from a letter written on tho occasion of his birst visit to by our special correspondent lato at marv it would bo to of country better fur the of 1 numerous aminy than that from kuchin kuch in too nl a city adopted as it liidi o for other operations nad 1 great central depot with wilier supplies of alio llio most copious nature reaching away in tho most desirable in idys march of meshed tho corn kjelds begin to place to vast expanses of roelof and cucumber cultivation of which enormous quantities aro consumed during the hot weather hero and there tho tendrils of tho plants arc trained over slight frameworks so that the great broad leaves form arbors to protect the watchmen from iho sun coining could bo prettier chiu tho appearance of fresh green bowers wilh their great broad staring yellow after the cuaty plain aud scorched stubble colds at intervals too are orchards reaches plums apricots and grapes all of delicious quality anro brought to market in great quantities ahn dark purple plums anro very remarkable some being T lafiro as good sized peaches tho ground is everywhere inundated with pools of water and irrigation trenches cross and each other in a complex maze this surface water is I 1 should think mostly derived from the rood the river which formerly watered toos alio llio capital besides this surface water there is nho a largo subterranean amount being convoyed in underground channels to more distant fields situated at a lower level those subterranean water courses anro especially in the case 0 tho more ancient ones a source of continual and terrible danger to the travelers han they anro being formed shafts are sunk at intervals 0 thirty to forty yards ami the sand and gravel brought lo 10 the surface by means of a bucket and rude wooden windlass tho brought up is thrown in an circular heap like the den of an aint lion these leaps mark the lino of the kanots often for miles across the plain just as mole hills do the track of tho aniro nl during rainy these circular heaps with their central shafts acl like so many tun dishes and gradually the earth is washed into alio channel below and swept anway by the current the mound thus gone tharo is no mark whatever iia to tho whereabouts of alio shaft which yearly grows wider and wider I 1 have seen them from ten lo 10 fifteen feet across and going down sheer to a depth of sixty or seventy feet yawning on the edge or even in the midst of lunch frequented thoroughfares sometimes flioy were naked and undisguised in iho arid plain sometimes their mouths completely hidden by undergrowth der growth and luxuriant growth of a of creeping which af uch localities over ami over again but for tho instinct of my horse I 1 li have been precipitated inac them it is frightful to see those pita often half way across a track where thousands 0 men and animal traveling too at night and some of the nights none ol 01 the dearest are continually on horseback one has the advantage of alio double lookout kept by himself and by alic animal but I 1 fancy that many a score of poor toot sore halt blind old must annually find eternal rest ironi their earthly pilgrimage at the bottom ol 01 these dreadful pits I 1 have over and over and over again seen alio llio and ligaments ul a camel wedged ten feut down in one of these apertures aper tures they had doubtless stumbled in somo dark night and were perforce left to perish london daily times |