Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-26

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purpose aThey-Ace fsstened ng the inside
Ut have been somewhat particular in
Describing this wall, because the general
construeelsa ofali walls Ia Chm are simi-
lar to this, one, although they are not also
hieh noe 90 thick. 4 But there AEs proba-
bly, thousand walled cities in China
whose walls win sverage twenty I've fest
high and twenty feet thick, and: smother
thousand walls may be ' somewhat less.
Then there IL the great Tartar Wall. q
lietl0 nefthof Pskin, son1sa thonfAAa afve
hundred, miles long, and older ttan, the
Christian era, thicker and higher. thsn
any or the rest. There are said to be one
thousand five hundred pertecturL cities in
China. Al these are surrounded BY walb
built by. the government, besides tho
great number of, cities whose walls arg
made ut the expense of the city govern
ment alone And when We have
spoken of the walls surrounding
with the subject. For example, in PekiR,
inside the, inclobisy Wall tbefeis another
Of miles in. extent, surrounding what Is
called the Imperial City. Then, again, IN
side of this. Is another immense wall, sur
rounding What ID called the Prohibited
City. Within this inner inclosure ID the
buildings conhected With royalty And
20 heAltar and Temples Of HeavsnAR
surrounded by two concentric swallA 81
great extent and magnitude, which must
be passed by means Of immense gates
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'withssdry thorn brush, surrounding what
criminals are beheaded, and their heads
and where other criminals are ,crucifed,
and yet others starved to death, amid the
most piteous moaning and insane raw
ings for food. Again, the Hall Of
thousand men Compete for liter
airy degrees, and where the longest
purse is more successful than the hardest
study, is surrounded by another wall and
entered by gates. Then al places uof
idolatrous. worship, and they are legion,
high walls. The old city of Nankin, on
the south bank Of the Yangize Kiang, is
surrounded by wall eighteen miles long.
AC ivy Va AsCAoAu6s IA f~AO rAOAsA
eriy portion of China, has 3 wall
fifteen or sixteen miles in length.
The city of Foochow, with one
side exposed tosthe river Min. 10 surround
ed by high wall Wherever stone can
be had, it is used for these structures.
The city Of Ranchack, also on the south
side Of the Yangtze, is surrounded by q
wall, running over the top Of the noun
tain thousand feet high. I also saw,
while ascending the Yangtze, monstrous
wall surrounding an,area on the top of q
mountain, where the Chinese Of that re-
giOn took their wives and children for
safety during the terrible rebellion that
sweptlover great part of China aefew
years ago.
"Then, in Thousands and tens of thou
sands Of Instances, in China,a high wall
is built right before, the door of a private
dwelling, to ward off spirits OF ancestors
who are supposed to be blind, and Obliged
to move in straight lines, and who will,
consequently, stumble against the wall
when they come TO it, and give up the
pursuit.
after giving good-desl Of attention
to the su6jecf,, am satisfied that the
whole amount of wall in China, if put To-
gether, would build one twenty feet high
snd ten feet thick, entirely around the
globe, and would require five tth0unnd
men 10 work steadily for two thousand
wears to accomplish the work. reg -