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[[underline]] Chapter VII. [[/underline]] 141. in an earthen wall. This we judged to have measured somewhere between 4000 and 5000 feet north by south, somewhat less east by west. We thought also that we could detect traces, now much obscured by cultivation, of a broad avenue extending northward from the center of the [[underline]] fang chung [[/underline]] in the direction of the Wei, here only three or four miles distant. That here had been some fixed relation among the measurements recorded above is possible---perhaps even likely; they may, for instance, have been fractions and multiples of the [[underline]] li [[/underline]] used when the tumulus was constructed. [[superscript]] (13^[[7]]) [[/superscript]] Further study is needed to elucidate this point. ----------------------------- [[superscript]] (13^[[7]]) [[/superscript]] The modern [[underline]] li [[/underline]] is reckoned at 1800 [[underline]] ch'ih [[/underline]] [[Chinese character]] (nearly 1900 English feet---roughly a third of a mile). ----------------------------- The nearest thing that we have to an actual contemporary account of the tomb of Ch'in Shih Huang Ti is the one given by the historian Ssŭ-ma Ch'ien, who wrote about a century after the great emperor's death. [[superscript] (13^[[8]]) [[/superscript]] The monarch, he tells us, began the construction of his tomb --------------------------- [[superscript] (13^[[8]]) [[/superscript]] The [[underline]] Shi chi [[/underline]], chapt. vi, fol. 25-a. The account is translated by Chavannes, [[underline]] Méms. hist [[/underline]], vol. II, pages 193 [[underline]] sqq. [[/underline]] ---------------------------- immediately after his accession, employing upon it the forced labor of 700,000 men. That there was a walled park about it was suggested by our own observations^[[|]]on the ground (see [[underline]] ante [[/underline]]). The existence of such an enclosure, containing within it a temple to the spirit of Ch'in Shih Huang, is further implied by a passage in the [[underline]] History of the Later Han Dynasty [[/underline]] which says, "All the Han [[underline]] ling [[/underline]] (imperial mausolea) had a park and an ancestral temple, in continuation of the practice established by the Ch'in Dynasty". [[superscript]] (13^[[9]]) [[/superscript]] ------------------------- [[superscript]] (13^[[9]]) [[/superscript]] The [[underline]] Hou Han Shu [[/underline]], chapt. xxviii, fol. 10-a. The passage reads: [[12 Chinese characters]] ---------------------------- The dynasty which Ch'in Shih Huang aspired to found was overthrown
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