Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1898 — The Great Wall of China. [ARTICLE]

The Great Wall of China.

The great Mail of China was recently measured by Mr. Unthank, an American engineer. Ills measurements gave the height as eighteen feet. Every Liw hundred yards them Is a tower twenty-five feet high. For 13(j miles the wall goes over plains and.' mountains, every foot of the foundation being of solid granite, and the rest of the structure solid masonry.