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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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View from the porch of the main temple at the Ming totnbs. These temples and tombs, among the most interesting in China, with only a small amount of care coulfl be preserved for many >ears. Note the thick vegetation growing among the broken tiles of the roof ■"Hall of ('lassies.■■ (_)ne passes throu^li a littk' door in tlie wall and (niters a i(uict courtyard full of trees, some of wliicli were planted a thousand years a,ii"o under tlir Sunj.;- dynasty and, al- though twisted and wrinkled, are still stately and dignified like ancient sages. Xear a large wooden gate are ten curious old stones ahout three feet high. 'I'hey are the holy dniins of the I'hou dynasty and arc v^Too years old. Al- though pi'icclcss relics of antiquity, they remain outside.open to the ravages of cold and heat, of frost and rain, in the temple is the wooden soul-tahlet of Confueins and in adjoiniii'i hnilding> are taljlels of many disciples and pupils of the master. The Hall of Classics is a group of temple-like huildings in a large garden where the text of CMiinese classics is kept engraved on stone tahlets. There is a wonderful p'oi Ion. and in the cen- ter of a heautiful lake surrounded hy a marhle lialustrade stands a splendid temple. Il is the "Hall of Meditation." hut now is deserted and covered with dust: dust is everywjiere. hlown in from tlie (lol)i ilr>ert liv whirlwinds from the north. The line doert sand is ))()W- dered thickly over the >tatelv throne .-ind panrlcil sei-eeii. and ha> didled the

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