326 COFFINS EXPOSED. [Cuar. XVII 
directions, and more than once when wandering 
through the long brushwood in this place, I have 
been entangled by getting my feet through the lid 
of a coffin. 
Tombs on the Island of Chusan. 
I believe that the wealthy in these districts gene- 
rally bury their dead, and some of them build very 
chaste and beautiful tombs. There are three or 
four very fine ones in the island of Chusan, where 
the paving in front of the mound which contains 
the body is beautiful, and the carving elaborate; 
the whole of the stone-work is square, instead of 
circular as in the tombs in the south of China. 
Here, as at home—and I believe in every part of 
the world—trees of the pine tribe are generally 
planted in the burying-grounds. Lord Jocelyn, in 
his “ Campaign in China,” mentions such places in 
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