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[[underline]] Chapter X. [[/underline]] 201.

too we found indications of earthworks.  These may once have extended around the entire summit (although we found it impossible to trace them all the way^[[).]]  At their northern extremity was a rectangular bastion in which stood a low mound (see map); and in their southwestern corner was the foundation-mound of a large building, now, of course, long since disappeared.  Where it had once been lay scattered about in some profusion, though without any regularity of arrangement, large flattened and discoidal but otherwise unshaped stones; these, we felt sure, had been [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] bases for upright wooden columns of the sort that have always played so important a part in Chinese architecture.
  When in actual use, all these earthworks were no doubt lined with stout palisades or wooden fences of some sort, behind which the defenders could fight without exposing themselves unnecessarily.

[[underline]] Groups of Pebbles and Small Boulders. [[/underline]]
  In addition to the above earthworks, we noted here and there on the surface of the southern part of the promontory (but not, so far as I observed, north of the marshy depression) numerous groups of small boulders and rounded waterworn pebbles.  The latter were fairly uniform in shape and size---roughly spherical and between 1 and 2 inches in diameter.  This fact suggested that they had been deliberately selected and brought here for some definite purpose---not merely picked up at [[strikethrough]] random [[/strikethrough]] haphazard  and tossed into heaps in preparing areas for cultivation.  The peasants whom we interrogated disclaimed any knowledge of them.
  To us, the most plausible explanation of their significance was that they had been gathered, probably from the nearby beaches, to serve as missiles, for use in slings or perhaps pellet-bows (although for the latter they seemed a little large).
  In trying to account for their presence here we should not, it is