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wall adjacent stones are fastened together by heavy iron mortises in 

 the shape of a double wedge (X) f° ur or fi ye inches broad, two linking 

 each pair of stones. Whether the lower layers of blocks are mortised 

 in the same way we were unable to determine, though a friend has 

 reported that he has observed these links also in the slabs forming the 

 footing-platform, but we saw none in the part we examined. 



On the top of the bunding from Hangehow to beyond Haining, 

 about forty-five miles, there is a broad earth roadway, suitable for 

 riding or even driving, though the latter might be risky, a unique 

 country road. Back of the roadway there is a further embankment 

 some ten feet high and about fifteen or twenty feet thick, which com- 

 pletes the barrier to the encroachment of the boisterous tides. Prac- 

 tically all of the houses near the river are built on levels lower than 

 this bank. 



The Haining Pagoda, which has been mentioned already, is ap- 

 parently not very old and was probably built by a Buddhistic believer 

 in fung shui as a protection to the bund and the city against the ravages 

 of the "serpent's head." It is a fair specimen of its class, and cer- 

 tainly forms the most prominent eminence on that section of the 

 Avail, and, together with the more recently constructed pavilion just 

 1m 'low it, serves well to mark a vantage point from which to view the 

 approach and passage of the wonderful wave which sweeps past at 

 everv tide. 



A Buffer at Closer Range. 



