THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. —Like a sinuous serpent, China’s great wall writhes over mountains and hills from Kansu to Hopeh covering a length of 1,500 miles (a distance greater than from Auckland to the Bluff). Built over two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the great wall winds its way along the northern border of the old Empire to lose itself in the west. It was constructed as a defence against Tartar hordes, and is so thick that two carriages can be driven abreast on its rampart.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 6
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89THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.—Like a sinuous serpent, China’s great wall writhes over mountains and hills from Kansu to Hopeh covering a length of 1,500 miles (a distance greater than from Auckland to the Bluff). Built over two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the great wall winds its way along the northern border of the old Empire to lose itself in the west. It was constructed as a defence against Tartar hordes, and is so thick that two carriages can be driven abreast on its rampart. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 6
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