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[[underline]] Chapter V. [[/underline]]   85-a.

gular projections or salients, often loosely called "bastions", seen in so many of the Chinese city-walls built during more recent centuries ([[underscore]cf.[[/underscore]] pl. 19, fig. 2). On the contrary, at Old Ch'ang-an there were simply the long straight curtain-walls, with no provision, save perhaps at the city-gates (see page 87, below), for the directing of a flank fire against bodies of assailants. 

Extending back from the brink of the inner slope of the rampart