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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
cIIAP-. I.] CHINESE TEMPLES. 13
flimsy, and one never seems to meet with
evidence of that immense amount of care and
labour and thought in their construction, or of
that sense of the beautiful, which characterises
the great temples of India. The wooden
pillars, often plain, and the grotesquely painted
walls which one mostly sees in China, are a
poor substitute for the stately marble pillars
and exquisite carvings of an Indian temple.
On May 29 our caravan was complete, and
we left Mukden to travel eastward to the Yalu
river, on the borders of Corea. We soon
entered a hilly country, and the scenery daily
increased in loveliness hillsides covered with
woods of a thoroughly English type, oaks and
elms ,such as we never see in India, and valleys
filled with thriving little villages and hamlets,
and streams and rivers affording glimpses of
exquisite beauty. The quantity of flowers and
ferns too, was extraordinary. Mr. James was
making a botanical collection, and in one day
we found five different kinds of lily of the
valley, maidenhair ferns of various forms one
especially lovely, in shape like a kind of spiral
bowl lilies, violets, anemones, and numbers
of other English flowers. We were in a
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