. William H. Seward's travels around the world. ents reassured the ladies, and showedthem that the Chinese are yet human, and they gave over allthoughts of fear and torment. After a march of three more tedious hours, we have reached thesame wretched inn which we left this morning. We conclude thenotes of our journey by mentioning that, a thousand years, more orless, after the wall was built by Chin-Wangti, a second one wasbuilt for greater security, at the eastern end, forty miles south ofthe original one, both of which remain standing. It is this secondwall last built, but similar to and cons
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. ents reassured the ladies, and showedthem that the Chinese are yet human, and they gave over allthoughts of fear and torment. After a march of three more tedious hours, we have reached thesame wretched inn which we left this morning. We conclude thenotes of our journey by mentioning that, a thousand years, more orless, after the wall was built by Chin-Wangti, a second one wasbuilt for greater security, at the eastern end, forty miles south ofthe original one, both of which remain standing. It is this secondwall last built, but similar to and constituting a part of the originalsystem of defence, that we have visited. Ming Tombs, November 15th.—Resuming our litter, and. mov-ing early this morning, we came down from the mountain terrace,and entered a smooth, level, circular plain, seeming more like abay which indents a high, rocky coast, than the amphitheatre oflandscape and mountain which it is. The terrace which surroundsthe plain was chosen by the emperors of the Ming dynasty for an. GATEWAY AT MING TOMBS. 190 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. imperial cemetery. It is divided into thirteen areas, seemingly ofequal extent. Each of these areas is covered with luxuriant gar-dens, out of the midst of which rises a magnificent mausoleum,called here a temple, but which is in fact a tomb. Dr. Williamstells us that Ming means bright. The Bright dynastyflourished from the close of the fourteenth to the middle of the seven-teenth century. Nanking, for a time the capital, has a cemeteryof the earlier rulers of that dynasty. But we understand that it isnot so well preserved as this. All the tombs are of one type. We visited that of Yung Lo,one of the most distinguished of the emperors of China. Hisdecrees of laws and manners, grounded on the writings of Con-fucius, with some alteration, constitute even now the code of theChinese Empire. We sat down here to rest in an ancient grove ofpersimmons, live-oaks, acacias, and cypresses. I
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