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(1) From the top of the new Buddhist pagoda atop Jiaushan in Jennjiang looking
northwest across the Yangtze toward Yangjou (July 2001)
 

(2) Looking toward Jiaushan (upper left corner) from Beeiguhshan (July 2001)
 

(3) Jennjiang's Jinshan syh (July 2001)
 

(4) Another view of Jinshan syh (July 2001)
 

(5) A cottage wine industry still hangs on in Jennjiang, which is of course more famous for its vinegar. (July 2001)
 

(6) Traditional and modern stoves in the kitchen of Mr. Harn, a resident of the village of Shoeitair in Dantwu.
Mr. Harn's jiapuu traces back to a literati family in the early Ching Dynasty in Yangjou. (July 2001)
 

(7) The tea field outside Mr. Harn's house in Shoeitair.
Shoeitair is a small tea producing village set in the low hills in western Dantwu county south of Jennjiang.
The village dialect belongs to the southernmost group of Mandarin type dialects in this region. (July 2001)
 

(8) Village street outside Jihtzyy miaw in southwest Danyang county. (July 2001)
 

(9) A street scene in Danyang city.  Danyang is about 30 kilometers south of Jennjiang.
But its dialect is a vaguely Wu type, having the Mandarin 3rd person pronoun ta,
but the Wu negative feq (corresponding to Mandarin buh). (July 2001)
 

(10) The Grand Canal passes by Danyang, seen here across the top of the picture,
east of where the city walls once stood. (July 2001)