Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

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in the bed Of running stream, they set in motion
by he water and praying night and day. the spe
ea benefit OF the person who has placed them there The
Iarars also suspend these convenient implements
Their domestic hearbs that they may be put motion
by the current Of cool air from the opening the tent
andso twirl for the peace and prosperity Of the family
Another machine which the Buddhists make use of to
simplify their devotional activity is that Of large barrel
turning on an axis 1t smads Of thick pastcboard fabr-
Gated OF innumerabe sheets Of paper pasted the
other and upon which written in Thbetan character
the prayers most in fashion Those who have not suf
Client zeal or sufficient strength to place their backs
immense load of books themselves at every
step in the mud adopt this easier method and deyon
can eat drink and sleep at their ease while the eompa
ant machine does all their praying for them.
when we happened to be passing one Of these
machines we saw two Lamas engaged in a violent quar-
REL and almost coming to blows all Of their
zeal Tor their prayers Oneo them it appeared hadcome
and having set the barrel IN motion his own private
count was retiring modestly to his CELL when CHANGING
to turn his head to enjoy the spectacle Of its pious
ne saw one Of his brethren stop the wheel and
SET 80! twrLng again for himself Indignant Of course at
this unwarrantabe interference, he back and in his
turn put stop to his rivals pety and they continued
this kind OF demonstration for time but last los
ing patience, they proceeded to menaces, and then
cuffs when on old Lama out and brought the diff
Guilty to peaceful termination by himself turning the
prayer barrel for the benefit Of both parties
We append the following description Of the Great WALL
which, though not numbered among the wonders Of
the World certainly Of the greatest monuments Of
human labor, and, we may add, Of imperial folly:
The road to ILL., which we followed duringa great part
Of the day. led far the Great WALL and as this
has been often mentioned without any very accurate de-
scnpton being given Of it, will say few words the
SUBJECT The idea of raising wall defence against
enemies s OF course, not peculiar to China. Antiquity
offers many examples Of similar works, though
grand SCALE Its Importance has been very differently
estimated BY different peoplesome rating it very highly
and others turning it into ridicue Mr.. Barrow who
visited it in 1898, with Lord Mccartney made the follow
o1o,,1at
and Scotland 900 houses and estimating each on
an average to contain 1900 cubic feet Of masonry he
maintains that they do contain large quantity of
materials as employed in the wall of China and that
these would suffice for wall that should 20 twice round
the world But 1t is evident that he has taken the ba
sis OF his calculation the part Of the wall Immediately
the north OF Pekn, which is really fine and imposing
but it must not be supposed that this barrier is equally
large and solid throughout its whole extent. We have
mad occasion to cross it at than fifteen different
points, and have often travelled for days together without
ever losing sight Of it, and instead Of the donble battle
mented stone wall which at Pekn it is sometimes
very humble looking wall of clay; and have it
reducedto its simplest expressions and composed of
piled up together As for the foundations, of which Mr.
Barrow speaks and which consist Of large eestones
mented with mortar we have certainly nowhere q
vesge of auy thing of the kind and it is reasonable to
suppose that, the Great Wall built rampant
against the ncurons of the Tartar hordes the envrons
of the capital would be fortified in special The
Mandarns ALSO who charged with the execution of
this work. would probably execute conscientousy
the part that made under the eye of the Emperor and
content themselves with raising the mere pretence of
wall those distant points, which had besides little to
fear from the Tartarssuch for instance the frontiers
Of Ortous and the Alechan Mountains
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