2-651-884 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'China. Hwang Ti began the Great Wall of China in 214 B.C. Of its huge length of 1,500 miles the best preserved section is at the Nankow Pass where the masonry, brick parapet and towers are in the main unharmed', c1920. Nankow Pass is one of the alternative names of Juyong Pass, one of the three greatest mountain passes of the Great Wall of China. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 2, c1920.