Throughout the whole of China, from the northern Shansi to the southern Kwangsi, from an island in the sea east of Ningpo to the lofty summits of the W. Szechuan bor Southern outpost w.s. thereby necessitated. and the title of Nan Vu was then applied to the peak, which has held it unto this day—It is the Southern Peak. ranges, almost innumerable hills and mountains are scattered, which in the course of the ages have come to be held as sacred by the followers of one or another of the big religions of China. To enumerate them. all would be too big a task, as a mere Usting of the names as far as they are known woud take many columns. Furthermore they are not, fall of equal Importance.. Some of them will neither be commonly known outside their own locality province, nor be able to lay claim fo any great antiquity in the role sacred, while others are known by all and everybody over the whole of China and. even beyond its [borders—besides claiming the distinction of being among the oldest sacred mountains not only in China, but possibly in the whole world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.