Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . It was he whoconceived the ideaof building the Chin-ese Great Wall toprotect the northernstates of the design was fora wall which wouldcross the entirenorthern bordersfrom the sea to the fartherest western corner of the modern prov-ince of Kansu. The work was begun under his immediate super-vision in 214 , but he died before it was completed. Muc
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . It was he whoconceived the ideaof building the Chin-ese Great Wall toprotect the northernstates of the design was fora wall which wouldcross the entirenorthern bordersfrom the sea to the fartherest western corner of the modern prov-ince of Kansu. The work was begun under his immediate super-vision in 214 , but he died before it was completed. Much ofthis Great Wall has been destroyed, but as it originally stood onthe border line between Mongolia and China proper, with all itswindings and the double and triple lines erected at some points,it had a total length of about 2,000 miles. Its mean height wasabout twenty-six feet and its width twenty feet. The structurerepresented a solid mass of over 4,000,000 cubic feet of other nation ever attempted a work of masonry so stupendousas this and representing so vast an outlay of money and labor. The wall served for centuries to prevent military expeditionsof the Tartars from entering China. Sentinels kept guard on the. THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. EARLY DAWN OF CHINESE HISTORY. 127 walls and from their towers gave timely warning of the enemysapproach. All natural passages were guarded by encampmentsfilled with troops. Every gate had its little garrison around whichtowns soon sprung up serving as market places for the surround-ing populace. Back of this barrier the Chinese were able to de-velop their national unity and to concentrate their energies. WhenGenghiz Khan finally breached the wall in the thirteenth centuryit had protected the Empire for a period of at least 1,000 years. Itis a question whether any of the original work of the wall remainsstanding. In the severe Mongolian climate a very few years sufficeto crumble most ordinary buildings. FAMOUS CHINESE WALL. Near
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