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| Views of China : vol.2 |
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| No.828 TIENTSIN. Adjoining the Powder Mills, there is a good specimen of Chinese architecture called the Haikwang Temple, and which is given in our view; its bell tower has a prominent position being considered a work of great merit: many of these small Temples are built by funds accumulated through the fanatic zeal of poor creatures who voluntarily immure themselves in small close cells built in some thoroughfare where they may attract the notice of the charitable by a bell which is attached to the outside and is sounded by means of a bamboo and rope. These poor zealots remain built up in this tomb with no means of egress until the necessary amount has been collected. |
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Adjoining the Powder Mills, there is a good specimen of Chinese architecture called the Haikwang Temple, and which is given in our view ; its bell tower has a prominent position being considered a work of great merit : many of these small Temples are built by funds accumulated through the .fanatic zeal of poor creatures who voluntarily Immure them-
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selves in small close cells built in some thoroughfare where they maw attract the notice of the charitable by a bell which is attached to the outside and is sounded by means of a bamboo and rope.
These poor zealots remain built up in this tomb with no means of egress until the necessary amount has been collected.
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