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Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Technology Science
Publisher: New York : McClure, Phillips and Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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A WdNDEKFUL TAGODA, WITH TILED ROOFS, IN WESTEEN CHINA. perfect preservation of the idol made their impression, the thought thatcame to my mind was, How far more marvelous is this than many ofthe worlds boasted wonders. I thought of the Colossi at Thebes andthe Sphinx. What are they? Scarred, ruined and defaced by the handof man and the effects of time, they are scarcely recognizable as images.They are little better than lumps of battered rock. But far in the westof China sits this old Buddha, remote from the tracks of travel, un-noticed and almost unknown; yet greater in size than the Egyptian REMARKABLE MONUMENT IN WESTERN CHINA 565 Colossi, his proportions preserved in all their pristine freshness, templesabove and below him, and priests in attendance to keep the incenseburning at his feet. There he sits, grimly gazing out over the tiledroofs of the city which lies before him.
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A Stone Portal Spanning a Road in Far-western China. erected in 1906. This specimen was While exploring the temple, I asked one of the priests the age of theimage. His answer came, Gee chien nien. Some thousands of years.I give it for what it is worth. Another thought which that monument inspired was in referenceto a passage in one of Conan Doyles delightful stories, which describesa party of tourists viewing one of the ancient temples of Upper Egypt.The autbor makes one of the characters say: 566 TEE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY If one could come wandering here alone—stumble upon it by chance, as itwere—and find oneself in absolute solitude in the dim light of the temple, withthese grotesque figures all around, it would be perfectly overwhelming. A manwould be prostrated with wonder and awe. But when Belmont isTpuffing his bull-dog pipe, and Stuart is wheezing, and Miss Sadie Adams is laughing—and thatjay of a dragoman speaking his piece. My thought was that, if such are Conan Doyle

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