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VIEWS IN THE LAND OF RISING SUN.

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RIJTNOYAMA Is situated fifty mile southwest of Yokohama and Tokio. It is the ni> beautiful, as well as tli bighesl mountain in the Rising Sun. Attired in a blue dress and white bonnet, she proudly lifts her h< 1 among the clouds. BEer expressive features smile on all alik from c\t-v\ side. Tin's maj tic mountain welcome tourists even before they cast anchor on the shore of Yokohama. Tin height of tin* mountain is about fourteen thoi md • lit hundred 1 t. During tin hot summer a gi ii multitude of peopl climb tin- mountain to tat deep draughts of fresh air. No pen can do justice to th ry of tljis mountain. ) OKOHAMA is one E tb< ai harboi Rising Sun. and is lo I eight n milu ' kio. Belw i tin two citii busim carried on, on th 11 :raj»li and telephone; on by b od .Most o ti built after the American i tr; ler tils from San Fran. tinr will carry Jiim to 5fokohama in I h< will see an OJ I itli it customs. Ther< thou ud foreign n Idences in

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lnl a n d I [J thai ' il Park i Voi Lin P and Fairmonni I i" Pbiladeli Den e i the »nnd Bee \ i fine. K tl fn perial I hibition and Pi in il I held in this park. The to of tin National M i euni Ii If towai in viting the visitor to come in and \* curious zoological nd b mi 1 < ;in<l library connected with this run urn ( When reneral < ant, pr< ideal of tin ( faited States, w as i isiting the i Sun, he u welcomed and en1 1 with national honors one day in this park. Bel ( leavin (reneral and ftl at j 1 two American I in this park. I h tre< now owing finely, an u uncivil memorial of the hoi and farm ol that soldi.)-. In the w ide of the j >ark Is Uk< with many fish ml having] >tus plan- 1 in it. When sofi spring tinn m and tin < lotus blosson thos. who walk on the lak< slio when the air is filled with ft inn have an id that they are in Pa r Buddhism I them that if they Paradh they shall sit upon lotus bl< > m There lias b n newly built a rac < WJI around the lake, and wds \\ ill 1 tin when hor :ing begins. CHERBYTREI ml 1»1. • m8on the banks of the Sumida river: These bl< red or pink in lor, n wh as th Amei . Th. ippearanc< of tl blossoms, therefore, is very rich. When spring ti comes the p pl< men and women, < and old iti< out their < » Thej <\v- in their Sunday lothes > i rid< '»nt »r d up and down tl - river. \: