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I propose before the end of the year 1915 to complete the document as an appendix to this report of my mission. FOUR [[underline]]  In addition to Wan Fo T'ang, my trip to Manchuria   T'ANG [[underline]]  gave me the opportunity to examine four superb ex-  PAGODAS [[UNDERLINE]]  amples of T'ang architecture, the pagodas of Chinchow, Ichou, and Kuan Ning.  CHINCHOW [[underline]] The pagoda at Chichow is locally considered to   PAGODA [[underline]]  have been built in "very ancient times", but visits to book shops for old records and consultations with natives produced no evidence on the date.  The tower is octagonal, and above the top of the lower story has lost its outer casing of hard brick, leaving the inner core still erect, though formless and badly weathered. On the eight faces of the base are Buddhist figures in carved brick in relief.  On two sides these reliefs had obviously been re-pointed with plaster and had lost all their ancient character.  But from study of the work on the other six sides, I came to the conclusion that in style, certainly, and in workmanship possibly, the sculpture was of the T'ang period.  Owing to the fact that the decorations were so far from the ground that I had to climb to the nearest roofs (on some sides a hundred feet distant) to make these observations, they are subject to correction in the future. As this pagoda is but eighteen hours by train from Peking, and one of four of equal interest in vicinity, I recommend that exhaustive reports, including photographs by a telephoto lens, be made of it in the future.  ICHOW [[underline]]  When ^[[Within]] the walls of the old city of Ichow, which was   PAGODA [[underline]]  anciently connection with the fu [[underline]] of Chinchow and was 
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