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Show - T A General Defcription o o S -- In the Province of Fokien, near to the City Hinghoa, are the ways well ‘\‘\\ ftrongly Paved with ftone, for above four Dutch miles in length Near to the City Hoanting, lyes a deép, {mall, and darkifh Valley throug which runs a way Paved two miles in length Inthe Province'of Queichen, in the fourth great "City' Ganxin, are three Slnce of great bignefs; but the third called Tienfing, hat is to {ay, the natura] Sluce iswell nigha 1000. Rod long Uponthe Mountain Mechi (which isin truth a Wi dernefs) lyes a firm, b very narrow way, made by Art for Travelless to pals over ; a d upon Co 152 ve fteep way, at lealt ten Dutch miles. . Near to the City of iangxan the re 15 grea Mountain called €7ven, at ledft three hundred Furlong in ength, oy er which the direct road to Foken, and hasfeveral good Innsup n'it for the Ept ertainmen of Piffengers "BRI o SL UC ES Inthe fame Province, near to the City Hanchnn , is 2 ‘moft admirable piec of work; ‘fo great a Mafter-piece'in its kind, that the like _r;hc'reof is ardly to b found in the world, whofe Defcription I will give y uas follows Between thi and the chief City, the way wasformerly altogether unpafi ble, and the Inhabj tangs were conftrained'to fetch a great compafsround, by reaf n of the high an rough Hills, and fteep Paffages; fometimes neceffita ed to Travel toward th Eaft, to the Frontires of the Province Honan, and then agai to turn towards th North ;5 fothat they went at leaft two thoufand Furlon s, whereas the dire& wa over the Mountains was not much more then five hundred Wherefore at the en of the race of Cina,when Licupangus made War with Hiangyus for the Empir ,al thefe fteep Hills and Vales were levelled by order of Changleangus, the G nera of Lycupangus, to make his Army with the more eafe to purfueche flying Enemy And certainly with ‘great and incredible labour and induftry was this ftupend ou work effefted, in which he employed no lefs then his whole Army, with at lea 100000. Men more by whof ‘Tabour atc laft, a way wa perfe&ed through th {ame Onboth fides of the way are Walls made out of thefe Mountains, fo high that parc ' thereof toucheth the véry Clouds, and thereby obfcures the Paffages in fome places. In others he caufed Planks to be Jaid , to ferve a Bridges to pafs from one Mountainto another, on purpofe to fhorten the way which 15' generally {o broad, that four may ride a breaft, and has conveniencie enough toaccommodate Paffengers : ‘And leftthe People fhould by chanc recetve any mifchief asthey pafs over the Bridges, both the fides thereof are rai e in from one end to another Inthe fame Province, near to the City Chegan, is a Bridge called Fi, rea hin from one Mountain to another, and having but one fingle Arch, which is fix hundred footlong, and near feven hundred foot high, through which the Yello Rive rens It was three yearsin building before they had finifhed th {ame, an 15 called by the People, The flying Bridge In the Province of Honan, in the City Queite, lyesa Sluce mad o f u - q a Stone over the Meer or Lake called Nua - like ith divers forts of Images, as Lyons, Dragons, and th ly, the fecond in ‘the middle, thethird towards the Welt buile very ftrong, with many greatand very high A ches of {quare ftone, curioufl Adorned, and Carved N ‘the'Province of Xenfi, over the River Gei lyesthree Sluces, namely, on Fafte |