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still earlier a [[underline]] fu [[/underline]] city in its own right, stands an octagonal pagoda of thirteen stories in better preservation than that of Chinchow. According to a nearby inscription the repairs made on it in the early years of the Ch'ing dynasty consisted in strengthening the base and restoring the platform on which it stands.  
     Here by means of an improvised staging, I was able to approach the sculptured ornament and the relief figures closer than had been possible at Chinchow.  I found similar great Buddhist deities seated in niches, flanked on either side by an erect Bodhisattva.  Above, two flying angels slanted down converging on the baldachin over the niche, below, the whole was supported by a large architectural lion of traditional T'ang style who seemed to rear the whole weight of the tower on his massive fore legs.  Below the lion again, came horizontal courses of decoration in carved (or moulded) brick with vines and rows of lotus petals.  Then beneath, a frieze of graceful beings, representing the divine orchestra of Paradise.  Some danced, ([[strikethrough]] see photograph[[strikethrough]]) some sang and others played on various string, wind and percussion instruments.  On each face of the undestroyed  stories were set three bronze mirrors which must have flashed the sunlight many miles across country.(1) 
[[underline]] OLD MUKDEN PEKING ROUTE [[underline]]  
Hearing of other pagodas at Kuang Ning, said to be in this same style, I returned to the railroad at Koupantze by that route.  This took me across the
(1) It would be interesting to determine whether the position of these mirrors was determined by any consideration [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] of automatically signaling the hour to distant points.

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