Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . thisstupendous achievement it was built under the reign of aChinese emperor who flourished two centuries before Christ. -^ This emperorwas dis-turbed by the con-stant invasion of theTartars, a hardy no-madic race, who camefrom the hills ofMongolia, and plun-dered his people, whowere indeed af
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . thisstupendous achievement it was built under the reign of aChinese emperor who flourished two centuries before Christ. -^ This emperorwas dis-turbed by the con-stant invasion of theTartars, a hardy no-madic race, who camefrom the hills ofMongolia, and plun-dered his people, whowere indeed after-ward to come, if onlythe emperor couldhave opened the bookof fate and known,and rule the countryand found the dy-nasty which exists,after a fashion, his majesty re-solved to build a wallwhich should foreverprotect his empirefrom the wall was built,and so well was it AN IDOL OUT OF REPAIR, . , done that here wecome, wanderers from the antipodes, twenty centuries after, andfind it still a substantial, imposing, but in the light of modernscience a useless wall. It is 1,250 miles in length, and it is onlywhen you consider that distance and the incredible amount oflabor it imposed that the magnitude of the work breaks uponyou. We landed on a smooth, pebbly beach, studded with. THE GREAT WALL. „ shells which would have rejoiced the; children. We found asmall village and saw the villagers grinding corn. The chil-dren, a few beggars, and a blind person came to welcome end of the wall, which juts into the sea, has been beatenby the waves into a ragged, shapeless condition. There was aneasy ascent, however, up stone steps. At the top there was asmall temple, evidently given to pious uses still, for there wasa keeper who dickered about letting us in, and the walls seemedto be in order, clean, and painted. The wall at the site of thetemple was seventy-five or a hundred feet wide, but this wasonly a special width to accommodate the temple and presentan impo
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