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[[underline]] Chapter X. [[/underline]] 204.

that time linking the seaside resort with the capital to fly to Peking and procure our own set.
  The pilot on this occasion, Mr. G. W. Northridge (the same who had flown our party over the ancient site at Yen Tu a few months previously), kindly consented to deviate slightly from his direct course and circle Lighthouse Point for me.  From an elevation of some 500 feet, early on a sunny morning, the details of the fortifications revealed themselves with surprising clarity.  The impression that I thus gained was that the little earthwork 200 feet square in which stood the lighthouse was probably far older (just as it was much simpler in plan) than those others which extended over the slopes both north and south of the depression.  It might well, I thought, be coeval with the Han tiles, bricks, and potsherds that we had found about it.
  On my return to Peitaiho with our surveying-kit I was accompanied by Mr. Tung.  With him and Mr. Wenley and myself as helpers, Mr. Tegengren then executed his proposed survey (see map, Fig. 47).  More than this I was unwilling to undertake at that time; for the season was fast approaching when we planned to proceed to Honan and discuss with Mr. Wang Yu-ch'iao and his colleagues of the Provincial Board of Education the far more important matter of excavating the old Shang Dynasty site near Chang-tê.

[[underline]] Probable Age of the Remains on Lighthouse Point. [[/underline]]
  Our examination of the site at Lighthouse Point made it fairly evident that it must have been of some importance at one time or another in the past.  To what periods, we wondered, were the remains, especially the earthworks, to be ascribed?  A search of the local histories of the region threw no light on the problem.  Hence for our tentative conclusions we were forced to rely partly on the remains themselves and partly