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[[underlined]] Chapter V. [[/underlined]]
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17th, we left T'ung Kuan and motered slowly westward over the cultivated plain forming the southern border of the Wei River. On our left we passed the sacred mountain [[underlined]] massif [[/underlined]] of Hua Shan 華山, its precipitous peaks now snow-capped and cloud-covered (Pl. 19, fig. 1); these, together with other eastward prolongations of the great K'uen-lun 崑崙 range of Central Asia, have played a part of vast importance, both ethnic and historical, as forming collectively the division between northern and southern China. Owing to a late start and the bad going, we went no farther that day than the town of Wei Nan 渭南, on the southern bank of the Wei.
During the following forenoon we passed and photographed the immense mound, in several rectangular stages, which for the past 2000 years and more has marked the tomb of Ch'in Shih Huang Ti, unifier and "First Emperor" of China (d. 210 B.C.). Its more detailed examination we were forced to postpone until our return (see pp. 139 [[underlined]] sqq. [[/underlined]], and Frontispiece). We reached Hsi-an Fu the same afternoon and, after finding lodgings at the same Chinese inn where Mr. Tung and I had staid in 1917, reported our arrival to the provincial authorities.

[[underlined]] Stay in Hsi-an Fu. [[/underlined]]
The following day, March 29th, we paid a formal call at the governor's yamên, and received an invitation to a reception and dinner there the next afternoon. We also visited the celebrated Pei Lin 碑林, or "Forest of Monuments", with its famous Nestorian Tablet, and the Provincial Museum, where we saw, along with much else of interest, the slabs bearing in relief the representations of four of the six war-horses of T'ang T'ai-tsung, establisher of the T'an^[[g]] Dynasty (52).