Identifier: fromwesternchina00spra (find matches)
Title: From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sprague, Roger, b. 1869
Subjects: China -- Description and travel
Publisher: Berkeley : Lederer, Street & Zeus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ts inhabitants. Be-fore my minds eye arise lofty pagodas, richlysculptured memorial arches, roomy temples,and great stone bridges. It has not been thewriters intention to give the impression thatall the features worth seeing in western Chinaare due to the natural diversities and luxuriantvegetation of a highly cultivated country. West-ern China has its architectural monuments.Especially fine and interesting are the bridges.Marco Polo and all the travellers since himhave dilated upon their beautiful and substan-tial character, claiming them superior to thosefound in almost any other portion of the em-pire. When the Venetian visited the Chentuplain six hundred years ago, he wrote, Forhere the bridges have very handsome roofs,constructed of wood, ornamented with paint-ings of a red color, and covered with tiles.Many a time has the writer crossed preciselysuch a structure. Every feature was there, evento the paintings. Of course they were not thesame as those that Marco saw, for they have
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MEMORIAL ARCH ERECTED IN 1902 Sprague, photo. 53 long since fallen in decay. But the old bridgeshave been rebuilt; the old styles have been keptup. While many are roofed, many are not;there is a great variety of design; the surround-ings are always different, and consequently the

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