Teangchow, Hopel, Sept. 20.
Wider interest' has of Into been. developing in the few remaining battered relles of historical Importance {in this district, Even the local gentry, for long indifferent to such things, fare besinning to awake to the fact hat Teanghsien possesses at least one notable antique, dating back to the tenth century of the Christian era, before the Norman conquest of Eng-and,. Following a plan adopted by other better-known places on the tientsin-Pukow line, of possible in= terest to travellers, a board has re~ ently been sot up on the station platform, with a list In Chinese of Certain spots or objects in the vicinity, aleulated to attract those of an fantiquucian bent, Some of these are searcely worth the exertion of a visit, tunless one Is likely to be thrilled by 'a. sample of the famous Emperor Chien Lung's calligraphy, Inserlbed on stone tablet, This. commemorates his landing here from the Imperial barge when out (our of Inspection on the Grand Canal nearly 200 years ago.
vivid imagination Is required to enable one to profit from an excursion to Wanghalssa (the temple that looks towards the sea), a market village $0 the east. "Behind the present temple, restored at n comparatively recent date, is to be seen the site only of a famous pagoda, once perhaps a thing of beauty but now a dreary Gesolation, 'The gradual decay and ilapidation, which are the inevitable fate' of many ancient and beautiful Sulldings in China Is a depressing Feflection, when one recalls the glories fof bygone civilizations, in the land.
new generation of Western-train~ students with a selentifie educa~ tion, Keenly developed historic sense ride Inthe Ierary and stinctively that {hreshold of some very Important disoveries, thanks to these analytical minds now at work on a variety of problems.
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