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Show ---------- The Empassy of th -------- All Commanders and Officers, as well Civil as Military, who bhave a mind t be preferred, muft betake themlelves to this City, which prefcribes Laws to al others 5 and upon this place alone depends the whole Government of China, { that a very great number of Learned Men and Officers, are alwajes refiden here The Streets are not Paved, infomuch that in wet weather (which is feldom they are hardly paffable; but when the $Northern winds blow, and th weather dry, the Soil which is of a light {ubftance, makes a duft far more noyfo to Paflengers then the deep and Miry Streets ; for fuch itis, that it blinds a Ma ashe goesalong The Inhabitants therefore to prevent this inconvenience, ar fain to wear Silk Hoods over their Faces; and the extraordinary foulnefs of th way makes verymany to keep Horfesto carry them after a Rainy day; for th infinite number of common people that are continually up and down, turns thi dufty Soil into Mire and Dirt after alittle Rain There are al{o Horfes or Sedans to be hired at any time for the accommodatio CTIATRE p- -;-- \\.‘_7,- PSS ier R e ------------t--- of Paflengers; but none make ufe of Sedans or Chairs but Perfons of Quality W ...,-_‘w llnh& The annexed Print, which fhews you in what mannerand ftate the Grandees o Peking are carried through the Streets, will ferve to fatisfie tl.ne Reader in this The Sedanis made very Artificially of Bamboes or Rufhes,in the middle whereof ftandsa Chair, which is covered with a- Tygers skin, upon which he that i carried feats himfelf, having behind him a Boy with an Umbril in his hand to kee off the Sun: His Servants likewife attend him, fome whereof go before, an others follow with Enfigns upon their fhoulders, whereby the quality of the perfon is known, and is refpected accordingly as he pafles along The City abounds in extraordinary brave Buildings, famous Idol Temples high and Artificial Towers, and Triumphal Arches, which exceedingly adorn th the fame ; though we had not fo full a view thereof as we could have w1flleda i regard we were little better (as has been already faid) then confined to our Lodgings by order of the Emperour Mayrcus Panlns a Venetian, who was in this City in the year 1275. when the Tar tars Corqucred the Southern Provinces of China, calls the fame in his Writingstt |