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, . *793- t built with .greater irregularity than any we have yet feen. It. Is about a
September. ' mile in length, as well as I could judge from our paffage through it,
but 1 had no opportunity o f ascertaining its breadths populous it was,
o f courfe,. and appeared1 to be a very hufy place.
After bfeakfaft wepro.Cefeded towards a fpot on our jotnWsyyof which
had aff beard *or read with wonder and aitoniihmepty whMv fojfisw
Europeans had ever feen, and *vhich no ohe o f our o Wrricountry wbuld
4iluriMves: flfis was,* the gtsbife w ih, the snefcat
bc^ndaiyWf China and Tartary, thyough. whofe. pQftak ourrpilsge
la y .1 ■
A t the -end %f ihfe town Which bas been j ^ ixt^tionedv ptere^gas
a temporary triumphal arch ereded in th&twabs^js
, decorated With dreamers andfilks of4 varidtis~colours.; a t theyenti^nce
o f ’ which: the AmbaiTidof ,.W$s ;^akiSsd- with three guns. There we
paffed between a double line o f fbkUers, :\vhtch -e^Rded ^.either fide
o f the road, from thectriurnphalgateway towafds the grjear wall. .
. Thefe were the oplyf fpJdigjs We had ,ygt jfeen, pa Chinat,, whe»(p o ^
ieffed a martial appe&raagpjj: aud^&OGor-dingi3@gF h^^^pfrf^ch
things, I never few *.■ $&&■ . difplay of
drawn up in at very iegulat: pawnee, ^esoh segjmepijbqbgj djftifgufflijed
by a different, d r^ J and divided. tpto^ffig^i^^rldiefer.we^ranh^-
ki ckrfk columns, and/jn"fitter’&<?Pt
afcbjoutS. They were all arrayed in a kind o f armour* which eppijfted
o f a loofe coat or.robe, in imitation o f acoat o fm a il , with fteekhed-
mets that covered their heads and. fttoujdcrs. _ Their; impkanentsrof
war were various, compriling mattMoeks..-.^Mg81fr.*d^gffla^^ fpeaxsi.
halberts, lances, bows and arrows, W3t%v^3if>:'9tbeg. weapons,
o f which I knew not the name, and cannot particulariydefcrisbp,
Thefe companies o f foldiers who wore no warlike inipaj|n$it but the
fword, had a fliield to accompany it. In fljort, every one o f thefe
military
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d p | A | ^ y & l g u j & f d by. tjieir;, dre% and r^ms/ and
^ n g e d with, the utmoft propriety, ttofc merely as-tg^gplijnty pf pa-
fition mother*, general diftribution, but'asj'tb the'-effeft o f contraf|: in ’
the vape,^ pfifdxtemal|(^p^€a|afe^p On. each- fi&lllpf the road there
•^ej^-iejenfeeg p f ths% divigpn:,,..q^ch,confiding, as TfliouM think,
W j'/aod ajjaagl qf-.mulfejans, ;pjacedjin aPuildgig,
er^dftd,, os; it, appeared, fop to. ppy, 'jaskme
thc.En^liih erifibafljyp^dljaet\veea, the/jin^g.
Q ^ a^JJr°aching the,fw^ll,/tl?e,re were^^n^qp^pis f r a ccmfflferal
o f ay,
built jb©*j,e^ aad,, |tr£ngk|ene4‘,,W|h p l^ ^ a ^ tiq n . ©T three
>*f:°!Eh ,408*$ thepn, r
Tartary., O n . the ^p^cG^e^f aiK$jae£ gateway’is. a , ftrmvg jedpubt,
fromuhence I aipended the’hill, aba contrived t'o;ge?j Srt "t be’1 top ’b f 'the
great wall, which formerly feparated the two, empires. ,if
s perhaps, “the moif fhipendous worje^ever. produced
by. man length o f it is fuppofed-ta fac,npwatds,nfit^«l|re\lTimdrpr)
1 npiQs^^d^lt|^height in 1 ,^ place wj^qg C. dppdi upop it v^ es
in its Cireumft^pe^, .according.t,o.the nature ,o^lhe _ furface^ ^ UPWar.ds
‘0 1 thirty, feet, andlit js ^pptetwSnty-feur- fe e t i iS d .'' t K ■ foiindatib'l
^ .d d leW o tf
hjt^^hencs ^,d^rc^haUpTja,
wall or bread-work of ftone, three [feet thick, oifoach fide of'an
ernbattka u a IJ *'
When it is confidered that this immenfe firudiure is not .merely
carried along .level ground, but pafifes over immenfe. riyers, where it
aflumes. the form, of bridges, fome. of which contain double rows,of
immenfe arches j or ftretches, in the fame expanlive fliape acipfirieeB
vat% ^ |o conned the*mountains*, that form them / and that'^nd/onbr :
defends, but alfo afeends, the fteepeft declivities; the idea-.of its gran- I
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