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Show Most Famous Eastern Mino. China's famous iron mine, the Tayeh, the foremost in the far east, is especially notable for the ease with which it is worked. It stands peerless peer-less in the world In this respect, excavation ex-cavation requiring no machine power. The work is done by hand by the Chinese coolies. The mine is reputed to be inexhaustible in its ore. In the days of the "three kingdoms" the locality formed a theater of bloody fighting, and the vicinity abounds in relics of that memorable period in Chinese history. It is about 3.630 Chinese miles from Peking overland, and about 4.9S0 Chinese miles by water. wa-ter. Tayeh-Hsien is traversed b; ranges of hills and mountains, the valleys of which abound in innumerable innumer-able lakes of all sizes, with watercourse water-course facilities. Consequently the locality lo-cality is rich in scenery of great beauty and the Chinese poets from olden times have never tired of singing sing-ing of the "Eight Views" of Tayeh. In the neighborhood of Tayeh iron mine are found the ruins of ancient iron foundries probably 1,000 years old. Millions of tons of slag lie In heap3. |