Show THE WALLS OF PEKIN The outer wallis about twentyseven miles in circumference It was built centuries ago of mud and bricks The Inner and outer face are af the latter each brick is as big as a family Bible and the interstices are filled up with I mud and stone The whole has long settled into ai solid cement Sae for some damage done im one or two quarters quar-ters by recent floods this great wall is intact The gates number thirteen They are insignificant though finely arched and are not much wider than the streets and are only about twenty feet high At night they are closed with great doors sheathed with iron The whole oily forms two rough parallelograms par-allelograms one being the Tartar city and the other the Chinese There is another wall separating the two sections sec-tions The first is the Ulanchu quarter par excellence the second is given over to commerce Inside the walls of the Tartar city they are sixty foot at the ibase are the government buildings build-ings the foreign legations and the residences res-idences of the wealthy Tartars which run around another high gre > bricited wall six miles roughly n circumference circumfer-ence This wall encloses the temples pleasure grounds end outer palaces of the sacred city consecrated to the uses of the Son of Heaven Inside this block again is the Purple Forbidden City the actual residence of the emperor em-peror and his courtThe Fortnightly Review |