| Show THE WALLS OF PEKING they serve to te the cle classes of the tt tartar city the outer wall is about twenty seven mues miles in circumference it was built uries ago of ard and bric bricks lis the inner inner and outer face areef are of the latter each hrick is as big ba as a family bible an and d the interstices are filled up with mud and st stones dries the whole has long kcf settled acl into a solid cement sure save for some damage done in one or two quarters by recent floods this great wall is still intact the gates number cumbe thirteen they are insignificant though gr g r finely arched 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 city sa says ys fortnightly review forms two rough parallelograms rams one bein being the tartar city and tho the other the cinese 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 the tartar city they are sixty feet thick at 31 the tha base are the government buildings the foreign legations and the rc residences dences of the wealthy tartars Tar tars which ran round another high gray bricked wall six miles roughly in circumference rence this wall the te temples pleasure grounds and outer palaces of the sacred city consecrated to the uses of the son of heaven inside this block again is the purple forbidden city tb the actual residence of the emperor and his court |
