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Leave the city ofjéhot. fte/criptionoftwo neks in its 'niighMurhoad.
Circumjiances of the journey. Strive at Pekin. Arrangements
- made there. The remainder o f the prefents prepared to be fent to the
Emperor-. Sicknefs prev'diê aftion'g the foldiers. Sura? Aktïktfliidór
attends his Imperial hdapAty^ B rief account o f Ms palace. Eüfther
arrangements refpeïïiflg the houfehdtd of the e'mhajjy. Prefents to thd
Emperor and the Grand Ghoülaa. Thé Emper or goes to Téumen-maMd
yeumen to fee the prefents. His perfon and drejs particularly dzftyêbed.
Prefents receivedfrom court fo r their Britannic Majejlie’sl I Clrctttn-
fan/ces concerning thofé which hadhéén fent to life" Entferof.
port prevails that the ethbajjy. is to leave Pekin»
I t was notified by orders,, iflited this morning, that the emhafly was-
Tueftb*aa. quit J®hol on die morrow, to proceed 'to Pekin* where the final
iflue of it wouldbedsnown and fettled.'
In the evening, the whole o f the heavy baggage was lent off for
Pekin, At nine them was.'a very heavy ftorm o f thunder,1 lightöiög,'
and rain, whiebéöntinued, without any intermilfiony till four o’cjfoqk
o f the following morning,
’Wednef- - This morning, at eight o’clock, the Britifli embafly took their leave
P y ff- o f the city ofjehol, after a ftrkS confinement of fourteen days*: as the
liberty, with which we had been flattered fopn aftër’óür arrival, had
never been granted.
We galled the Emperor’s pagoda at nine 'ö’clöck, where wê faw an
Ambalfador. and his fuite, from the King óf Cochin China, refrefhing
i . themfelves.
September-
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themfelves, ' It is an annual vrfit to pay tribute from that P/incè to
the Emperor ofCMna. .
The confufion and1 folic r a 5e 'Which attended the enjjy*i»t® Jehol,
prevented me'from giving a’ defcriptiaif o f the t'wdVrppi^ wljich are
among the mo|l extraordinary ©bjieôà'd have ever ffeen or'lead? of ^
and muft not. be gaffed by without fuck a particular de&riptidn,' as’i f
is in:my power to give o f them..
The firft is an immetife'-pillar, or column o f fdid rock, whiébis.
feen from the palace, occupied by the embafly at at thetâiitî
tance, as it appeared tome-, o f about four miles. It'is fituated oil the>
pinnaefe;'of a large ÊÈioUritain, and near the verge of it: from Which it
rifes, in an irregular manner,* to-«the height o f one hundred felt; Its.
feafe is fmall, but it gradually thiefeens'
fcveral o f its prójeéling parts iflues ftreams o f the finéff water.
The upper part o f this enormous 'rock, which is rather flat, appears
to be covered With fhnibs and verdure - hut as it is absolutely inaccefli-
blej tfete is fio poffibility of feïoewîrig the kind of plants which crowin.
it. When its own individual height is Gcnfidétëcf,. and added to the
eminehce where nature, efr, perhaps, fóna^eonyülfion ,o£ thp èjfê^egts,,
has placed it, the paflfenger in the valley betewfeknnötr lonk- up fo it
without an equal degree o f horitor and amazërtidpt'. It is èïteemedy and
with greatpropriety by the Chinefe, as among the firft natural cùriôfitiçs»
o f their country ; and is known by the name o f Panfuialhaung.
The other rock, or rather duller vêry'ftupendçrûs'
objeô, ànd ftands'O© the fummit of a very, giflndV- though nota fertile*
mountain. They are alfo ia thé form of pillars, and appeal!*. except m.
o#e parrioukr poi^ ©fi view, to be a folid roofei; though, they are
a dually feparated from’- each other, by an interval of. lèverai feet.
Their height rifes to near two hundred feet, as I underfland from at
correct mathematical admeafurement.
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