Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 62
the very earliest period of history the Chinesehad found their warlike neighbors very trou-blesome. The Tartars had made so manyraids into the Celestial Empire that they weregreatly dreaded; and to prevent their at- i897.] CASAN. 58l tacks, the Chinese had made on their northernfrontier the Great… … est valleys; it crossedgreat rivers, being doublein important passes. At dis-tances of a hundred yards therewere towers thirty-seven feet high,which measured forty-five feet at f~the base, while the wall itself wastwenty-five feet thick. This stu-pendous piece of work had proveda safe barrier…
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