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September.
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ftands : it is furrounded with gardens,~,biut has. little todiftingyiih it
from thpfe which; we have already inhabited;,
. This ,was the .moft_ fatiguing andunpleafant day o f otir wpoleroyte,,
hoth-from the heat of .the weather and .the badnefs o f .the road,*,fwhich
was fo rugged and narrow in many places,; that fome.of the. carts .were
overturned; but, happily, without any accident to thofe.whom they
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Arrive at the town^ o f Waung-chauyeng. ■ } .fiefeription o f Chinefe fo l-
diers, & c. Paß the great w all. J^fcipßtion^tf jß , 4 The, different
appearance o f Tartary and China. B^fs dn .extraordinary mountain.
Arrive at the palace of. Chaungrflanuvé. ■, tjrevclrcitmßances’.o f it.
Example o f the indußry o f the pèafapts, and the cultivation o f the
country. Some account o f the tenure bymwhich lands are held in
China. Arrive at the palace o f fallachottueng. Defcription o f it.
Arrangements fettled fo r the manner in which the embaffy was - to
make its entrance into ffehoh :
A. S'the Country was now become very irregular and mountainous,
thé roads were propórtionably fatiguing. At nine we arrived at the
town o f Wataig-chauyeng. At a- ftnali .didance from it,., we päffed
= an arch o f great ftrength, vmich ftretched atrofs a valley to unite the
oppbfite "hil-foj, and is guarded by abroad wall pn either fidéhofïSf.
, Ä ïiMèdfurtheiy the road proceeds Up a very deep hilt/.©® die! top
' of whifch' therdWa fort, with a ftr-pfig1 waif or ïampkrtJ'feetdhing.-om
aShef'-Sde o f i£,*Jfo thevdiftafice o f two or three mileflipFEronruthei.ele*,
^OT®ïituaïif)ris Which the inequality of -the-'road■. frequently i offeredv
this1 Wall was a Very ViÖbfë'bbjééh ip its whole'exient,, and appeared' to
, be imS’-ftaté’ of'déèdy;11 s
‘^Beneath' thé foït'p a thick; {foéé^aruhWayy.thEoughiwhich
t^é^bidi'Cohdüifted’Ap^QpWn-phill, whofè dftslÄty wb's fuchyms -tcr
oblige the drïveis to havèbüt one horfe in each carriage, and to focurd
a-wheel-with ropes, ’to prevent a too rapid dëfcentt? " At'ihs bottoaa o£
this hill, and in a moft romantic valley* ftands the'town ofkWatmg-.
chauyeri^p which- reférnBles - thofe places'of-the fame .kind.thaf have:
been’ already deferibed, ex.cept in the uniformity of' them; this being
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