Ssu-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,[…]

[1886, E. Colborne Baber, “Travels and Researches of the Interior of China”, in Royal Geographical Society: Supplementary Papers, volume I, London: John Murray, →OCLC, A Journey of Exploration in Western Ssŭ-ch’uan, page 21

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.

[1897, Alexander Hosie, “To the White Wax County, the Sacred Mount O-mei, and the Highest Navigable Point on the Yang-tsze.”, in Three Years in Western China, 2nd edition, London: George Philip & Son, →OCLC, →OL, page 165

It appears that heavy autumn rains following on the break-up of a hot summer are prevalent all over Ssu-ch'uan, except at Sungpan where the climate is the same as North China, heavy summer rains and fine autumn.

1898 May, G. J. L. Litton, Report of a Journey to North Ssu-ch'uan, Harrison and Sons, →OCLC, page 6

A third example of the t'u-ssu system as prevalent just before the Communist regime came to power in China is that of the Hsuan-wei-ssu of Wa-ssu or Wa Lamasery in the territory of Wen-ch'uan Hsien (northwest of Ch'eng-tu, Ssu-ch'uan).

1954, Herold J. Wiens, “T'u-ssu System”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 244

Orographic rain seems significant only when the monsoon current runs into the high plateaux of Yun-nan and Kuei-chou, and into the mountains of Ssu-ch'uan. Thus the famous Omei Shan of Ssu-ch'uan is one of the wettest places in China, and receives on the average about 76 inches a year.

1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21