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gradually down to a height of five or six chang. It is said that 

 in olden times there was a strange dragon which came from the 

 southern side of the mountain in order to drink the water of 

 the Wei. The course it followed shaped itself into a mountain 

 of clay, and therefore (the mountain) was called after it" '. 



As we shall see below ^ also in Japan a great number of 

 names of mountains point to the same ideas concerning the 

 connection between mountains and dragons. 



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2 Book III, Ch. IX, § 2, A. 



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