One of the earliest descriptions of the Patachu temples is by Dr. Rennie, who was the military surgeon attach: ed to the British Legation in 861, He visited them twice and claims have been the first Anulo-Saxon rave done so. This may possibly be correct, but he was certainly not the first European, for members of the! Russian. (eeclesfastieal) mission had stayed at one of the temples as early.
1828, axis proved by certain In Seriptions. found on the wall of on of, the rooms.
It was, however, not till a few years later that the habit of using. the hill temples as a summer retreat became the regular custom among. the: foreign community. Freeman: Mitford, an attache of HM, Leyation, stayed at one of the nearer temples, Piytinssu (Temple of Azure Clouds)
1065 and at' Tachuehssu (Temple of Great Learning) in the following. year. By that time it had already Become part of the diplomatic routine, In those days, before the Invention of motor cars and before the con-Struetion of motor roads, it took nearly halt a day and was quite a Dusinoss to got out to the Mills. at Patachu, 'Today it takes a little over half-an hour by fast car. Then, (00, the hill slopes one ted almost the life of a hermit and was quite cut off from the vest of the world, specially ax to" move out of one's Kemple" meant' some pretty "sti climbing,
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