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[[underlined]] Chapter VI. [[/underlined]] 101.

still some distance away and perhaps a couple of miles apart, two of those vast grass-grown tumuli that we had already remarked from afar. They had been somewhat worn down and rounded off by time and weather; but we could see that they had originally been truncated pyramids with plane or/[[insertion]] perhaps [[/insertion]]very slightly convex sides and well-defined corners. Mr. Ch'iu identified them as the tombs of Han Hui Ti 漢惠帝 and Han Ching Ti 漢景帝, the second and fifth [[superscript]] (73) [[/superscript]] rulers of the dynasty.
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[[superscript]] (73) [[/superscript]] Or sixth, if we count the usurpation of the empress Lü (Lü Shih 呂氏), the widow of the dynasty's founder, Han Kao-tzŭ.
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  Not far away to the northwest was another gigantic grave-mound, that of Han Kao-tzŭ himself, founder of the Han Dynasty. [[superscript]] (74) [[/superscript]] Farther
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[[superscript]] (74) [[/superscript]] Hui Ti and Ching Ti occupied the throne from 194 to 188 B.C. and from 156 to 141 B.C. respectively, but their reigns are of slight historical importance. Han Kao-tzŭ, the founder of the line, on the other hand, was in most respects a truly great man, although found wanting in physical courage on certain occasions.
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away rose still others, similar in size. In addition there were countless smaller ones, not imperial in character; for in ancient China, strict sumptuary laws carefully regulated the size and plan of men's tombs in accordance with their rank and position in life. The whole great assemblage of graves stretched away across the plain as far as we could see, to east, west, and north.  The necropolis which they formed was far superior in numbers and extent to anything of the sort in my experience, even in China.

[[underlined]] Tumulus of Han Ching Ti. [[/underlined]]

  During out ensuing investigation of Han Ching Ti's tumulus, known as the Yang Ling 陽陵, [[superscript]] (75) [[/superscript]] Mr. Wenley and I took its dimensions ([[underlined]] cf [[/underlined]]. plan, ^[[^fig. 20). [[strikethrough]] pl.[[?]] .]).]] Fig. x) [[/strikethrough]] We found that, making due allowance for the effects of erosion, they agreed fairly closely with those ascribed to the tumuli

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