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[[underlined]] Chapter XVII. [[/underlined]] 364.

these, see pp. 220 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] and pp. 218 [[underlined]] sqq. [[/underlined], respectively)
  We spent the first night out from T'ai-yüan at a little hamlet and military post at the southern foot of the transverse range just mentioned. Early the next morning we began our journey across the mountains. The country was very rugged, the new motor-road full of sharp curves and steep gradients. All in all, it was a really fine piece of engineering. It did not quite follow the ancient northward-bound caravan [[strikethrough]] route [[/strikethrough]] road through the Yün Mên Kuan [[3 Chinese characters]], the "Cloudy Gate Barrier", but crossed the range a little to the west of it, by a somewhat longer but lower route. We had a superb view from the summit of the pass, over a wide expanse of barren brown mountains veiled in that dust-laden haze which almost always fills the air in northern China. A piercing wind was blowing, and in sheltered corners snow was already lying. The spot lay at an altitude of not far from 7000 feet above sea-level.
  We crossed the "divide" without diffi^[[c]]ulty, and found easier going coasting down the slopes of the road on the farther (northe^[[r]]n) side. Just after we had [[strikethrough]] gotten [[/strikethrough]] passed through the mountains and entered the Ta T'ung plain beyond them,/ [[insertion]] we saw, near a loop of the Great Wall and to  the left of our road, [[/insertion]] a vast group of small hemispherical hillocks, all approximately of a size, and obviously artificial. Without excavation, there could of course be no indication of their date. They had every appearance of being grave-mounds; but the local people of whom we inquired insisted that they were in reality the remains of a great encampment of Mongol [[underlined]] yurts [[/underlined]] or/ [[insertion]] hemispherical [[/insertion]] tents, magically turned to earth. This absence of any recollection as to their real origin seemed to me to indicate for them some little age.
  At about dusk of the second day we reached Ta T'ung. We found, to our regret, that its picturesque old city-wall and gates had been considerably knocked about and damaged during the recent civil war. Our journey through the province of Shansi amply confirmed our belief, gained 

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