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[[underlined]] Chapter XIV. [[/underlined]]   302.

us, just opposite the center of a low narrow mound perhaps 50 feet long and extending about east and west. Two or three yards farther south still, we could see the remains of a triple terrace of grassgrown earth (pl. [[strikethrough]] CXXIV [[/strikethrough]] ^[[40, fig. 2;]] D on Mr. Wenley's detail-map, [[strikethrough]] pl. CLXXV [[/strikethrough]] ^[[fig. 59.]], Appendix I), in places still faced with a revetment of cyclopean masonry. Of this earthwork the two lower stages, now much eroded, had apparently once been square, the lowest (and of course largest) of the three measuring about 75 feet on a side. The third and uppermost, oblong in shape, stood well back on its platform (the second or midmost stage), and was much smaller; its outlines and dimensions seemed indeed roughly comparable to those of the mound just mentioned (and which, moreover, it appeared to parallel) at the lower end of the old roadway.
  All the above features (with the solitary exception of the supposed foundation-platform for a tower) lay, we noted, in a straight line extending very nearly (though not exactly) due north and south; for there was a slight declination a few degrees east of north and west of south (see line X-X on map, [[strikethrough]] pl.CXX). [[/strikethrough]] ^[[fig. 54).]]
  In the opposite direction, to the north of the great mound (not in the axis just mentioned but a little to the east of it), at a distance of around 600 yards rose another tumulus, somewhat smaller and more nearly conical than hemispherical in shape. It was covered, e^[[s]]pecially about its base, with roughly hewn and much weathered blocks of lava. [[superscript]] (271) [[/superscript]] This
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 [[superscript]] (271) [[/superscript]] It appears to have been a custom, albeit not a common one, in the Far East, sometimes to cover tumuli with stones. The mound at the tomb of Ho Ch'ü-ping, it will be remembered, seems to have been finished off in this way (see page 122). The great grave-mound of the Meiji Tenno, emperor of Japan (d. 1912 A.D.), covered with smooth blue-gray cobbles, is perhaps a modern instance of the same practice.
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mound, it seems quite certain, is the one referred to in the records as having formed the monument or cenotaph (for he was buried elsewhere) of the North Wei Emperor Hsiao Wên Ti [[3 Chinese characters]]

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