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Just beyond Fêng-tu[1] there is a fathomless cave which is reputed to be the entrance to Purgatory. All the implements of torture employed therein are of human manufacture; old, worn-out gyves and fetters being occasionally found at the mouth of the cave, and as regularly replaced by new ones, which disappear the same night, and for which the magistrate of the district makes a formal charge[2] in his accounts.
[1]: Fêng-tu is a district city in the province of Szechuen, and near it are said to be fire-wells (see Williams' _Syllabic Dictionary_, s.v.), otherwise known as the entrance to Purgatory, the capital city of which is also called Fêng-tu.