. The awakening of China . gnifying the divine husbandman—a masculineCeres. Might we not call the place the Temple ofCain? There the Emperor does honoiir to husbandryby ploughing a few furrows at the vernal example no doubt tends to encourage and comforthis toiling subjects. Another temple associated with these is that ofMother Earth, the personified consort of Heaven; butit is not in this locality. The eternal fitness of thingsrequires that it should be outside of the walls and onthe north. It has a square altar, because the earthis supposed to have four comers. Heaven isround and
. The awakening of China . gnifying the divine husbandman—a masculineCeres. Might we not call the place the Temple ofCain? There the Emperor does honoiir to husbandryby ploughing a few furrows at the vernal example no doubt tends to encourage and comforthis toiling subjects. Another temple associated with these is that ofMother Earth, the personified consort of Heaven; butit is not in this locality. The eternal fitness of thingsrequires that it should be outside of the walls and onthe north. It has a square altar, because the earthis supposed to have four comers. Heaven isround and Earth square, is the first line of a schoolreader for boys. The Tartar city is laid out with per-fect regularity, and its streets and alleys are all of con-venient width. Passing from the Chinese city through the GreatCentral Gate we enter Legation Street, so called be-cause most of the legations are situated on or near they make no show, being of onestory, or at most two stories, in height and hidden. I • Sebortniu Kobiir6«in 25. April stiliSApriMSeSin-ChitBi. ■ j. geslorttn M) 161(9 iii KinSIja, I. ■■ uoj christlither ! EiniJutseliecrorsclierimfreindenUnde i>Vi , t ^l.
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