《徐霞客游记·游天台山日记》
每走下一座山岭，我都以为已走到平地上，等到连接走下好几重山岭，下坡的态势还远没有停止，这才开始领悟到华顶峰之高，似乎离天已经不远了！
每下一岭，余谓已在平地，及下数重，势犹未止，始悟华顶之高，去天非远！
Every time I walked down a mountain ridge, I thought I had reached flat ground, only waiting until I had walked down several more mountain ridges that the declining trend was far from ceasing, and then I began to understand the height of Huading Peak, which seemed to not be far from the sky!