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[[underline]] Chapter V. [[underline]]  96.
The topmost stage was a long narrow rectangular platform (C) about 12 yards across north and south, and extending east and west for some 65 yards; its fairly level top stood about 6 feet higher than that of the preceding stage.  Here at the apex of the mound was a stone stela encased in brickwork (H), erected in 1695 at the behest of the great Manchu emperor K'ang Hsi.
The rearward or northern end of the mound descended to the level of the fields in a series of unequal stages---the borders of the successive terraces just described.  These however projected far less beyond one another than they did on the south.  The total distance from the center of the uppermost stage to the northern end of the mound amounted only to some 50 yards. as against about 400 yards in the opposite direction.
Scattered here and there over the raised surface of the great rectangle were those large waterworn boulders already mentioned and in all numbering less than a dozen (not indicated on the accompanying plan, as we were too straitened for time to determine their positions even approximately).  These had not been artificially shaped in any way, save that one had been flattened on top, apparently to serve as a pedestal or support for some object; nor had they been grouped or arranged in any regular order.  They rested directly on the tamped earth of the mound at varying heights above ground-level; only through human agency, therefore, could they have reached their present positions.  According