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60 perch being on such a narrow ledge that to reach the tomb the traveller has to pass through the house itself (22).

Since Dr Medhurst's visit to this place in 1854, several Gentlemen from Shanghae have left their names in Indian ink on the external wall of the mausoleum. *

The rock here again, a grey granite, is quite different from the strata lower down. The mausoleum measures 13 feet 8 inches in diameter, and is built of square blocks of stone in a dome, the crown of which is about 3 feet above the spire of the tomb. The base of this tomb, a hexagon of two and three quarters feet wide sides, and three feet high, decorated with antique sculpture in relief, is constructed of the red sand stone spoken of, surmounted by a plastered cone, four feet high, and within which, it is presumed, is the honoured urn.&mdash;Pilgrims from afar immediately on reaching the entrance, or arch way, six feet high, prostrate themselves, and render as much homage as the most devoted Catholic would give to Corpus-Christi. The paved floor sounds hollow;&mdash;beneath it, perhaps, is another cave. Without the entrance is the following inscription 面目現在 (23).

Ten minutes walk from the mausoleum in an easterly direction, brings the traveller to the Woh-mai-mew, a Temple for the departed spirits of seven respected priests, for whom there are hexagonal columns 6 feet high, the centre one 7 feet, the

    * Messrs. Butt and Cootts, and Aitcheson and Points, in May 1855, and Shaw and Francis in the June following. 1856 recorded no visitor there;&mdash;and in 1857 the writer was the first on record to approach it from the south.