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[[underlined]] Chapter XVI. [[/underlined]]            340.

end---the southeastern corner of the old city. Here we came upon a mound, now badly eroded and quite shapeless but still perceptibly higher than the earthwork itself. Whether it had originally projected much beyond the latter, so as to form a sort of bastion commanding the outer faces of the adjoining curtain-walls, we could not determine. The mound had once however, we may be pretty sure, provided a foundation for a wooden cornertower. All visible traces of the latter had of course long since disappeared. In its place we found a small and ruinous Buddhist temple, half hidden among bushes and trees.[[superscript]] (307) [[/superscript]] Similar mounds, we learned in the course of our survey, existed at both the northeastern and the northwest-
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[[superscript]] (307) [[/superscript]]  A few years later, when again traversing the lower Yangtze valley, I observed a marked revival of Buddhist feeling, most clearly reflected in the condition of the temples; for these had been repaired, renovated, and given the fresh coats of plaster and paint that they had so long lacked.
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ern corners of the old city; the one at the second of these had at its top a much defaced and quite illegible stela. No such mound was present at the southwestern corner of the [[underlined]] enceinte [[/underlined]]; for there, the entire rampart had disappeared---whether washed away in some flood or else removed piecemeal by the local peasantry for purposes of their own.
     With this exception, the rampart was quite regular and (although much eroded) relatively intact, its general character being similar to that of the southern face, just described. Only at the diagonally opposite or northeastern corner of the enclosure did the wall, apparently by design, bend inward a trifle (see plan, [[strikethrough]] pl. CXXIX)  [[/strikethrough]] ^[[fig. 56),]] in somewhat the same way as the northwestern corner of the one, faced with burnt brick, surrounding the old "Tartar City" at Peking. Nowhere did we see signs of a plinth or "dry-course" of stone beneath the earth of the rampart, such as became usual in later times; if any such existed, it had been completely buried and hidden by downwash.

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In footnote: 307 accidentally transcribed as 302. Reopened. Fixed.