THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA


B. q. PA.
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Ii was with the view of securing his EN-.
pre- against future attacks from these for.
m dai!e tribes, that Chchwanp:e under.
took the comp, Of the Great Wal
stuPendols work, surprising the mDst won.
d-riui eifOris of human abIr in other coun.
tries, and upon which twenty centuries
have eNerted bat little effect The largest
Of ihc pyramids Of Egypt contains but a
small portion of our matter in this wall The
solid contents of which-not incInd- no tb.
processing mass Of stone and brick. which
alone contains as m;ich masonry A. All I,nD.
ion-are supposed 10 exceed in bulk the
materials Of all the dwelling house. in En-.
g.and and Scotland. The vastness of tie
mass may be much better appreciated
by consider NJ that il i more than
sutficieI.i to surround The circtrrn:crcnce #
the earth, or two OF lis great circles. with
Two walls, each six feet high and two feet
thick Walls had been already erected lY
some OF the petty princes of the north. 10
exclude the barbarians fom their Sta.es.
Ab ut century back. the Provinces of
Chih-.c. Shcn- Sc and Shan-sr formed rbe
three kingdoms Of Tsin. Chaon and Yen.
which adIoined modern Mongolia. To
project his territories fom the Toork and
o:her tribes on the borders. the king of Tsin
huiit wall from the north Of Lin toan-foo.
al the western extremity of Shan-se. 10 the
HwanG-ho, north of yengan. foo. The king
Of len continued the wall from the north of
Selei-hwa-too to Lcou tunr.


he emperor direc. el his general. Muna.
teen, who had completed the campaien
against the Hcung- noos, TO survey he
walls built By these princes to comple:e the
union. and 10 cnnt;nle this great barrier
from hey yuh-kwan TO The place where. at
subsequent period, Wung. hae-low was
Duilt, on the shore of the Eastern Sea.
space q about fifteen hundred miles. over
aeeP Valleys and mountains of great e,eva.
tion. The foundations of this prodigious
WORK were iaId in the early part of this
year. Enormous numbers of mep some
say millions, being a third of the inbabi.
'aits o. certain age, were collected from
all parts of the empire, and set n work ON
the structure. Its supcrin,endenca xras IN.
trusted 70 Mung steen. Who had nh HIM
an army OF three hundred thousand men.
'esse.s laden with iron were sunk at the
seashore, where the wall begun. to make
puiress Tor IT, Large arches were built
or 'ne passage OF rivers; along the wall at
certain distances, where forts for earrisons;
ga,es were made at convenient places for
traffic. passage Of troops, &c; and IL w;llh
was 80 great that. in some parts, seven
horsemen could walk abreast at the ton of
inc wall The work was completed in the
% seo[t space oi ten years, in the second year
q ne usnrpation of Pa-wang (before Christ
TWO Nv hundred and five years; so that neither
Cnewangiee nor any of his race had the
salisfiction Of seeing this great underta.
king accomplished.


Ihornton's History of China.