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Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Technology Science
Publisher: New York : McClure, Phillips and Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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like of which may not be found elsewhere upon the globe. I speak advisedly. The world is large, and in regions like Switzerland and Alaska, nature seemingly has been taxed to the uttermost to produce a combination of natural objects of surpassing beauty and grandeur. Here, however, near the borders of Chinese civilization, we find a region of unequaled sublimity—a combination of lofty mountains, of swift rivers and of valleys of wondrous fertility. Then also of the works of man there are many—such as thousands of brine-wells, a great silk culture, a white wax in-dustry, mountains chiseled into the forms of idols, colossal bronze statues,pagodas, and one temple wholly of rich bronze. Great Omei Mountain is scores of miles in circumference, rising 11,000 feet, its highest point enveloped in the everlasting clouds. All these wonders are within a radius of forty miles. On another page, Hart quoted Babers account of the figure sculptured in the river bluff above Jah-ding, and added (p. 176) :
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The Face of the Great Buddha at Yong-hien. The features had been covered with gilding, which is peeling off, but is best preserved on the upper lip. REMARKABLE MONUMENT IN WESTERN CHINA 561 One would suppose Buddhist ambition to be satisfied with an undertaking of this magnitude, but we are told by a Russian traveler that it is a mere infant beside one a few days journey distant. There he found a mountain—a small one, of course—fashioned by the hand of man into the form of Buddha. Yet it does not appear from Harts narrative that he made any attempt to visit and describe so remarkable a wonder. In 1892, Archibald Little, English merchant, explorer and author, driven out of Chungking by the cholera epidemic, arrived at Jah-dingon his way to Mt. Omei, where he spent several weeks, afterwards embodying his experiences in a book, Mt. Omei and Beyond. He made no attempt to locate the Russian travelers find, although his wife secured an excellent photograph of the image on the river bank. In 19

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