Show THE CHINESE CAPITAL nto resting information about tho city of poking it con comprises pour citie with a population of a million tind it 11 ltd doorly flutie structured tho groad walls Pal peking cing the capital of tho the chinese empire and of the province of chihli on the tung hui river lias has a population estimated at one million live hundred thousand says the K new york recorder it stands on an extensive sandy plain phal i n and consists eontis ts of kin ching the prohibited city containing only the palaces of the emperor and the dwelling dwellings 0 s of his immediate retainers C ching the imbor imperial i I 1 al city N with a large 0 number of court officials kui ching the tartar city ci comprising twelve square miles and wai mai chinig the chinese city with fifteen square miles of area the tartar city is surrounded by it a wall sixty feet high and lifty fifty foet feet thick the chinese bic nese c city by ono one thirty feet high hig h and twenty live fent feet thick they ire arc I 1 milt built of stone aono anil and brick and filled with earth the suburbs include an all arett area of miles the J ho prohibited city two miles in ci circumference r cu inference cum ference i as e entered by four za gates g ates euch each surmounted by it a tower th alie c buil buildings dius are arc superior to any 0 ali ers S in the empire the iner meridian idian gato ate leads to ts tahe imperial building ri avil ami is reserved for the emperor solely five marble bridges spanning ca a little atle stream load lead to la a marble paved court and the ate of extensive peace al which the emperor receives thu the homage hornage of the courtiers on oil great groat state days ascending the stairway airway A the tranquil P palace ilace of lic heaven aven iss is rea readied clied into which none can enter without special royal permission iiii sion the number of people within the prohibited city is small most being Mant choos the imperial city surrounding 1 the prohibited t baity ity lias a wall twenty feet high pierced by four gates through urrIl ri which no one can enter save by special permission it contains the tablets of the do deceased ceased emperors and presses empresses em and the altars of the gods there are also the I 1 russian college coller rI 1 military stores und and king shan the artificial mountain with th of its five summits crowned by ta a pavilion the T tartar artar city su surrounds rounds alie imperial city and contains the principal government erani ont ollices and abe liall hall of science erected in near by are arc the russian church of the assumption and the temple where his ina majesty josty and princess worship their ancestors on the first day of every month the city is in control of the general of the nino nine fri gates atos near shoso whoso headquarters I 1 is the hi aih agh tower in which aro are tho im ill monso drum dribin and bell that proclaim the hour of nil not far away is id the white pax bagda la with its obe obelisk liNIC erected by mabeal kublai khan in ill the thirteenth century about which upon one hundred and eight pillars lamps burn continuously in s lionor honor the chinese ellhie 3 city I 1 is s the most populous lous but its structures are poorly built the houses lio uSes are of brick one story bagh with roofs of tiles it contains the altars to Tl heaven eaven to winter to arri agriculture 0 culture and the pool dedicated to the spirits of the waters whore where his majesty performs special auppl supplications icat ions whenever who never the country butlers from drought drouK ht |