Show Ancient Chinese Tombs Gigantic in in Extent Some OO mile west cst of Peking China says the Pathfinder Magazine Carl Whiting Bishop curator of the thc Freer gallery examined tombs of the I North Wei Vei d dynasty which was founded found found- ed pd by hy Tartars from Mongolia nul and aud lasted from the Fourth to the Sixth century B B. C. C The enormous amount of or labor which went Into th the constructIon construe construe- tIon of these tombs tomus Is indicated IJ bj by bythe the size of one of them It Is SO feet feet I high an and has a circumference of near nearly nearly I ly Iy half balf a mile being made entirely of I earth In front of this was an nn altar and Impressive e temples undoubtedly marked the site These temples as Is common In InI I China were of wood and aud so have dis ap appeared China had no stone archi This Is a n distinctive feature of Chinese civilization and e explains i the thc absence of ot such ruins as ns the thc Roman noI Roman noman Ro- Ro 1 I man Coliseum the Athenian Parthenon Parthe Parthe- non or the Eg Egyptian The be 1 j Chinese used wood altogether i |