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[[underline]] Chapter X. [[/underline]] 199.

dozen summer cottages, and a ruinous Buddhist temple occupied by a solitary monk.  Near the southern extremity of the headland stood a crude little lighthouse, from which the place had taken its name.  The crews of fishing-boats, when rounding the promontory, beat drums and gongs and set off firecrackers in honor of the dragon-god of the sea, lest he rise in wrath from the depths and punish them for their lack of reverence.

[[underline]] Ancient Earthworks on the Point. [[/underline]]
  In the course of several walks over the Point we slowly traced out the grassgrown remains of ancient earthworks---ramparts and terraces---now much worn down by cultivation and erosion.  At one spot, near the foot of the southern slope bordering the marshy depression mentioned above, recent heavy rains had washed away the covering of fine sand and exposed to view part of the outer face of an ancient wall of [[underline]] terre pisée. [[/underline]]  The successive layers of rammed earth, each some 2 inches in vertical thickness, which formed this were still clearly discernible.  The wall rested on a low plinth or foundation composed of a single course of flattish stones, some waterworn, others broken from larger slabs. These stones averaged roughly a foot across, and rested in turn on a bed of clean drift sand.
  With this exposed portion as a clue, we were able to trace the wall for a considerable distance, both east and west.  In the former direction it reached almost to the sea, and then turned sharply south at approximately a right angle, up the slope of the rising ground.  On the west it terminated at an oblong bastion (see map, ^ [[insertion]] ^[[fig. 47), [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] pl. XCVIII), ^[[cII),]] [[/strikethrough]]  on which had perhaps once stood a wooden corner-tower.  Beyond this the surface of the soil fell away somewhat abruptly toward the north and west, and a few feet beneath it, to the north was a spring which drained into the marshy area below.  From the bastion we were able to follow the line of earth-