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[[underline]] Chapter XVI. [[/underline]] 346.

Feudal Period (partly synchronous with China's Bronze Age^[[).]]
      A similar arrangement has survived to very recent centuries; see, [[underline]] e.g. [[/underline]], the plan of the existing Peking, with its central palace-quarter, formerly the seat of the Manchu emperors and their court.
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ture (for in the circumstances it could be nothing more) be correct, then the course of the "ring" path---rectangular, ^[[&]] naturally, not circular---around it must have been determined by the boundary of that quarter, per-haps a mere palisade; for we saw nothing to suggest that a wall of earth had ever been built around it. [[superscript]] (311) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (311) [[/superscript]]  Compare with what we saw at Ying the very interesting and detailed description of the Burmese city of Amarapoora---likewise square in plan and with a central stock^[[ad]]ed palace-enclosure---given by Col. (later Sir Henry) Yule in his [[underline]] Mission to the Court of Ava [[/underline]], Calcutta, 1856, pp. 130 [[underline]] sqq. [[/underline]]  His account reads almost like one of another (and somewhat developed) Ying.  Of the two cities, the ancient and the modern, Amarapoora was according to Col. Yule slightly the smaller in extent.
      Generally speaking, between the civilizations of the great Indo-Chinese kingdoms of recent centuries and those of the ancient states of the Yangtze basin there were very many points of striking resemblance, amounting in some cases to practical identity.
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[[underline]] Finds on the Site. [[/underline]]
   As usual, we asked the local peasants who gathered around us whether they ever unearthed on the site ancient relics of any kind; but on this point we found them reticent, vague, and noncomittal.  Like people of their class everywhere in China, they had learned that whatever bronze objects---particularly vessels---they chanced to find would bring them/ [[insertion]] a [[/insertion]] definite (even if very small) monetary return^[[|]]from the dealers in antiques; hence they were suspicious, and even inclined to resent independent investigations by strangers, whether Chinese or foreigners, on what they considered their own rightful preserves.
  They admitted however that they sometimes dug up old coins, all of them apparently of the common round [[underline]] cash [[/underline]] type with a square central perforation for stringing---not the older "knife-money" like that which we had encountered more than two years previously at the site of Yen Ti (see