The Mulberry land (3,000 miles wide) is Here, say the Mexicans.
Like the Mexicans, the Chinese sages declare that there is an enormous Tree—the Fu (or helpful) Sang Tree—in the eastern Mulberry land 3,000 miles wide.
As just remarked, the Chinese call the enormous Eastern Tree a Sang, and the Mexicans call their enormous Tree a Beb (both terms standing for the Mulberry,—a fact to which no writer hitherto has directed, or called, attention.)
Observe (see Figure 2) that at Tehauntepec (a little west of Yucatan) our continent narrows down to a width of 100 miles (or 300 Chinese le).
The Mexicans say that North America is a Tree, and that it has a correspondingly enormous Trunk,—which at Tehauntepec measures 100 miles (or 300 Chinese le).
Now the Chinese writers declare that the enormous Mulberry in the region east of the Flowery Kingdom has "a Trunk of 300 le" (or 100 miles.) What a prodigious dimension! (see note 6.)
A Mulberry Tree, with a "Trunk of 300 le," is There, say the Chinese.
A Mulberry Tree, with a Trunk of 300 le, is Here, say the Mexicans.
Such a stupendous Tree ought to have enormous Branches to match the Trunk, and we are not surprised when informed that our monarch of the forest goes up—up—up even to the Place of the 10 Suns (in the Arctic zone.)
The One true sun is, of course, high above the mountain ranges, or "Branches" of our Continental Mulberry.