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passageways and courts and goldfish ponds, and no one bothered as we poked around.  Here again, as in several other places we remarked the glass cases of gods, and here we found one case only partly full.  Inside were four freshly gilt lotus blossoms
waiting for gods, and outside were half a dozen Buddhas, painted red ready for gilding, evidently destined for places on the flower pedestals.  Some had paper steamers pasted on them, and I judge they are both votive offerings and tokens of munificent contribution to temple maintenance. doubtless insuring perpetual supplication to the donors.  Behind
the central group in the main hall we saw again the group that we had seen more completely and more newly done and painted at Fa Hsiang Ssu, that of Kuan Yin standing on the dragon head emerging from the water into which the carp's tail is disappearing before the Dragon Gate.  The carp turning into a dragon as it jumps through the Dragon Gate is a well-known symbol of the scholar taking his degree.  She is attended by the Dragon King, and several other deities, including the God of War and General We T'o.

   We sat down in one of the halls to eat our lunch and an old lady pointed us out to an open pavilion at the foot of a rocky cliff, near the well which is famous all over China as the source of the perfect water for steeping tea.  We ate our lunch with the refreshing accompaniment of tea grown in the valley and steeped in the water from the well. After a little rest we went down to our horses, regretfully leaving this beautiful place, and turned down along the valley toward the Ch'ien T'ang River.

   On the bank of the river we came to the Six Harmony Pagoda.  This is an old structure of masonry, dating from about 950 A.D.  It is [[strikethrough]]two hundred[[/strikethrough]] 200 feet high, and as solid as when it was first made. The outside is all of wood, painted red, and is thirteen stories.  The inside of masonry contains seven true stories.  Openings through the tower adjust the variation of height of the stories.  The outer part is hexagonal, but the inner is octagonal, at least in the inside passages.  The tower, in spite of its height, appears to be rather squatty, for it is
of great diameter, 48 feet along each side at the base.  The first five stories have gods in the center as in the diagram, but the upper two are built around the pole that points the peak.  From the top one