Photo by li. 11. Wilson, .Vinold Aiboietum 

 TURTLE STONE, 35 EEET HIGH, A FINE EXAMPLE OE THE MOST NUMEROUS OE ALL 

 MONUMENTS IN CHINA, THE "PEl" 



These tablets greet the traveler at every yamen, temple, mountain pass, by the roadside 

 and tomb, etc. (see page 1012). 



Architecturally insignificant, it is yet to the historian 

 antiquarian the most satisfactory of all China's monuments. 

 of Chinese archseology, commemorating every kind of deed, doing honor to deity, fulfilling 

 the offices of the library, preserving history, and directing the wayfarer. The usual form and 

 structure of the tablet is that of a single slab of stone, with its crest of the heads and curved 

 backs of a tortoise carved from a separate stone. 



the most valuable and to the 

 It is the kernel within the nut 



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