'The Grout Wall of China has long been Aescribed as one of the wonders of the world, but it was not until priest' Hyacinth, at the begin present century made known hi on the subject that the popular notion of one continuous and colossal structure, dating from remote antiquity, was fairly dissipated. Dr. O. F, Vou Méllendorf, of the German Consular Service in Northern Chiva, hus lately contributed the result of his study and observations on the subject, in the shape of a paper which appears in the Zeitschrift der Deutsrhen Moryenlandischen Gesellschaft, Heft 1, 1881, Considering the fragmentary character of our geographies knowledge of Northern China, it is not stiprising to find the existing information about the Great Wall characterised by similar imperfection; for the most part™
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