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Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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alled the Huan-tsui-lou, theview from which has for centuries past been muchpraised by the local bards. It was built in the Mingdynasty by a military official named Wang, as a spotfrom which he might observe the sunrise and enjoythe sea view. From here can be seen, at favourabletimes, a locally-celebrated mirage (called by theChinese a market in the ocean) over and beyondthe little islet of Jih-tao or Sun Island, which liesbetween Liukungtao and the mainland. The viewfrom this tower is very pleasing, though one need notbe prepared to endorse the ecstatic words of a senti-mental captain from the Wen-teng camp, who closeda little poem of his own with the words Howentrancing is this fair landscape : this must indeed beFairyland ! Many of the most conspicuous hills in the northernportion of the Territory can be seen to advantagefrom the Huan-tsui-lou. The small hill immediatelybehind the city wall and the tower is the Nai-ku-shan.2 1 See pp. 53 and 36. 8 Shan is the Chinese word for Hill.
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HILLS OF WEIHAIWEI 31 Like many other hills in the neighbourhood and alongthe coast, it possesses the remains of a stone-builtbeacon-tumulus (feng tun), on which signal fires werelighted in the old days of warfare. To the northwardlie Ku-mo Shan, the hill of Yao-yao, and Tiao-woShan, all included in the range that bears in theBritish map the name of Admiral Fitzgerald. The highest point of the range is described in thelocal chronicle as a solitary peak, seldom visited byhuman foot, though it is nowadays a common ob-jective for European pedestrians, and also, indeed,for active Chinese children. The height is barely onethousand feet above sea-level. Tiao-wo Shan and aneighbouring peak called Sung Ting Shan were re-sorted to by hundreds of the inhabitants of Weihaiweias a place of refuge from the bands of robbers anddisorganised soldiers who pillaged the homes andfields of the people during the commotions whichmarked the last year of the Ming dynasty (1643). Tothe northward of the Huan-t

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