Ssŭ-ch'uan

Ssu-ch'uan English Etymology From en cmn 四川 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Ssŭ⁴-chʻuan¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Sichuan. en 1886 E. Colborne Baber Travels and Researches of the Interior of China Royal Geographical Society: Supplementary Papers I https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.25323/ London John Murray 890752554 21 https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.25323/page/21/ A Journey of Exploration in Western Ssŭ-ch’uan In the typical pagoda of the south-eastern provinces the successive stages decrease both in height and diameter; but as the Ssŭ-ch’uan border is passed cases begin to occur in which the fifth or sixth stories are of the same breadth, or as it seems, of even a greater breadth, than the base, en https://archive.org/details/notesonethnology00rock/ 1895 w:William Woodville Rockhill Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet Washington, D.C. w:Government Printing Office 249244166 694 https://archive.org/details/notesonethnology00rock/page/694/ The silver earrings worn by the women of the Chin-chʻuan, a border district of Ssŭ-ch’uan inhabited by Tibetans, are shown in fig. 2. en 1897 Alexander Hosie To the White Wax County, the Sacred Mount O-mei, and the Highest Navigable Point on the Yang-tsze. Three Years in Western China https://archive.org/details/threeyearsinwest00hosi/ 2nd London w:George Philip & Son 1152746972 13524128M 165 https://archive.org/details/threeyearsinwest00hosi/page/165/ Great though the quantity of silk produced in the province of Ssŭ-ch’uan is, the output might be quadrupled if some means could be devised for delaying the hatching of the silkworm eggs. en