VISIT TO TEMPLES. 
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looking watcli-lioiise, witli -peaked roof and 
twisted gables. In and about this building were 
some fat and lean mandarins, very self-important 
in appearance, with a few Tartar soldiers, horses 
and all, and a very inquisitive mass of shaven- 
pated, narrow-eyed, long-tailed sons of Ham. The 
observed of all observers,” we passed through the 
intensely-staring throng, who pressed upon us until 
our walk upon the Great Wall of China was an 
accomplished fact. 
When we again descended to the sandy plain, we 
visited the temples seen nestling so prettily in the 
sacred groves of dark-leaved trees. Here we found 
oiu’selves among fantastic gable ends and carvings, 
gilded dragons, and great bells hung in old-fashioned 
belfries. In the couH-yard of the temple of the 
biggest Joss was an antique bronze urn, and on 
either side a colossal tortoise bearing on its back an 
upright monolith covered with inscriptions. These 
old stone tortoises are possibly coeval with the 
Great Wall, and fashioned some 2080 years ago. 
The surrounding country has, for this part of 
