The term =yih= (see Williams' dict. pp. 781, 1092) is composed of the characters for "fluid" and "vessel," and signifies "A vessel full to the brim; ready to overflow, to run over; abundant; to spread abroad, to diffuse." As =seay=, the word which precedes =yih= in our Chinese note, signifies "to paint," we perceive how the additional term =yih= teaches that the =paint= made use of has been applied to extensive surfaces, so that it presents the appearance of having "overflowed" or "run over" the rocky walls and caverns dealt with. Of course neither writing nor literal pictures could overflow or drench--and adhere to--walls or cliffs. But =seay yih= might cover the motion of applying =paint= in a most lavish, copious, overflowing manner. Here are cliffs so "rich with parti-coloring as to justify the most extravagant language in describing them." It looks as though the gnomes on the job, in the Canyon, just emptied their paint-pots down dizzy cliffs and then went back for more. And such extravagance is in harmony with the symbols which stand for painting and vessels and spreading abroad or overflowing! Mineral paints were freely used and sometimes apparently with considerable care and skill. Thus we read of a red sandstone cliff "unbroken by cracks or crevices or ledges" exhibiting "extensive flat surfaces beautifully =stained= by iron, till one could imagine all manner of tapestry effects." Here are painted imitations of tapestry. It should further be remembered that there are actual picture writings spread abroad on extensive painted or stained surfaces. The author just quoted beheld ancient dwellings which "exhibited considerable skill on the part of the builders, the corners being plumb and square." And just here "there were also numerous picture writings." (note 49.) An amazed visitor exclaims: "Grand, glorious, sublime, are the Pictorial cliffs of vermillion hue!" "Pictorial" answers to =seay= (the 10th character in our list.) Pictured and painted! say the Ancients. Pictured and painted! say the Moderns. We have seen that our Gulf (of California) has been called a =Puh-hai=, or "arm of the sea." Professor Hoith, the celebrated student of Chinese, in his work on "Chinese History" (p. 49, footnote) says that a =puh hai= is "an estuary." Webster says that an "estuary" is "an arm of the sea; a firth; a narrow passage, or the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current, or flows and ebbs." Plainly our Gulf of California is a =Puh hai= or Estuary. It may further be remarked that =Puh= is written in Chinese by putting together two characters, one standing for "water," and the other signifying "Suddenly; hastily; flurried, disconcerted, as when caught doing wrong; to change color, confused" (Williams' dict. p. 718.) It is superfluous to say that our Gulf or Estuary is a very "confused" or "flurried" body of water. It is truly a =Puh-hai=.