Show THE WALLS OF PEKING they serve the clauses ot the tartar city the outer wall is about twenty seven T s n circumference it was built nt uries ago of mud and bricks the and outer face are of the latter cah brick is as big as a family bible aul tho interstices are filled up with aad and stones the whole has long titled into a solid cement save for socie damage done in one or two ers by recent floods this great wall is idill intact the gates number thirteen they are insignificant though anely arched are not much wider than alie streets and are only about twenty feet high at night they are closed with great doors sheathed with iron the whole city says fortnightly review forms two rough parallelograms one being the tartar city and the other the chinese there is another wall separating the two sections the first is the manchu quarter par excellence the second is given over to commerce inside the walls of alie tartar city they are sixty feet thick t the base arc the government build aga the foreign legations and the residences of alie wealthy tartars Tar tars which run round another high gray bricked wall six miles roughly in circumference this wall the temples pleasure grounds and outer palaces of the sacred city consecrated to the uses of the son of heaven inside aliis block again is the forbidden city the actual residence of the emperor and his court |