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[[underline]] Chapter XI. [[/underline]] 234. city-gate. Much eroded, in places completely gone (probably dug away by the peasants for fertilizer; [[underline]] cf. [[/underline]] page 67), in the main the course of the rampart could still be made out quite clearly. We noted along it none of those projections or "bastions" seen in Chinese city-walls of more recent construction (see page 85). At its two ends it appeared to turn sharply to the east. The length of the entire perimeter was too great for us to follow, even had there been any reason for our doing so but the local peasants asserted that the distance around it was between 30 and 40 [[underline]] li [[/underline]] (roughly 10 or 12 miles). We had been able to find no map or plans of the ancient city, even allowing that any such existed; but i^[[f]] it was approximately square or quadrangular in outline, like so many Chinese walled towns, [[superscript]] (220) [[/superscript]] it must have measured something like 2 1/2 or 3 ------------------------- [[superscript]] (220) [[/superscript]] This ideal form for Chinese/ [[insertion]] walled [[/insertion]] towns, particularly those in the north, must, to judge from the ancient records, go back at least to the early part of the 1st millennium B.C. Nor is such a dating contradicted by the little archaeological evidence on the point so far available. ------------------------------ miles along each of its four sides---in the circumstances a not improbable figure. [[superscript]] (221) [[/superscript]] ------------------------- [[superscript]] (221) [[/superscript]] The walls of the (nearly square) "Tartar City" at Peking, built not of [[underline]] terre pisée [[/underline]] but of large well-baked gray bricks, measure in the neighborhood of 4 miles on a side. ------------------------------- During our inspection of the old rampart we found embedded in it, along with potsherds of the types already described^[[,]] [[strikethrough]] (pp. 229-a [[underline]] sq. [[/underline]] ), [[/strikethrough]] two small fragments of a quite different ware. Both were gray and unglazed, quite fine in texture, and around 5 [[underline]] mm. [[/underline]] thick. Their surfaces, though porous, were well smoothed and entirely free from mat or textile impressions. Instead, they displayed incised geometric ornamentation which contained both rectilinear and curvilinear elements; on neither fragment, however, was there enough of the design to indicate, or even
