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Show ATHAX 45105 KIREHE The Famons Chinele W4 ¢ the Mountains themfelves at comimutual difta ces ; where one may afiift the othe " are plante high Towers, and ftrong Gates,or Sally Ports, fr m whence they iflu ¢ forth or retire when any Invafion or Aault require ; an convenient Fortrefle "allo. adjoined not only defenfive,2, but accommodate for the reception of th clean.sh data import.tsv out README Souldiers, whichtomake good and maintain, takes vp'n lefs then a million ¢ The Wall is thirty Chinefran Cubits high, twelve br ad, and often fifteen Xius Emperou of ‘China, and Founder of that Imperial Family Wall; who ex elledall the Chinefian Princesiin the Magnitude o his Works, an - the glory of his Martial Atchievments 5 havin Conquered all China by fubjugating the Family of. Chewa, from the Governou of a Province he arofe to b :ablolute and fole Monarch, reducing the Tartars by m ny fignal Viories, an to prevent theic fatureillncurfions, he began thi work the twenty fecond year o his Reig \\.', not only oyer the Skirts,bu y "\\‘""" sof leflerRivers ;. the Avenues and Pafles for Strangersa d Travellers re* pairing from Foreign'Countries; are contrived Arch-wif like Bridges, or throug clean.sh data import.tsv out README Vatltsunder gronnd, all che reft uniform though car ied on for the moft par ~ "through roughand uneven Countries, forcing a a b ¢ part of a Mountarm;and where the mouth of the Saffro River receiveth the difem*bogu b he Province of Peking, which is {upplyed with the inac eflabl e B h\ Oncerning which thus 4tlas Sinicus 5 ¢ This mighty Wall for ifies the bot"ders of four entire Kingdoms, the longitude being thre "mane miles, of which fifteen make one degree, id eft, welve hundred Englif "miless The long feries continues without any gap, onlylo the North part of th ¢ City Sinen, in b { I(W 3g th v , which was two hundted and ten years before Chrift of five years compleated the> whole Fabrick; impreflin three Men out of te throughout that world of Chiisa, amounting to manymill ons; And fuch was th compofure of thismiratulous work,being fo ftrongly com a&ed and clofely joyned thatif in any place of the Cementations a najl mig t by driven between th o : the work thus became fo wondrous ftrong, thatit i - of admiration to this day, for through the many iciflicudes of the Empire,change -of Government, Batteries and Affaules not o lyof the Enemy, but of Violen Tempefts, Deluges of Rain, (haking Winds, and w i versnot the leaft fignof Demolithment , nor Crakt r Crazed with Age, butrappears almoft as in its firlt ftrength, greatnefs, an beaaty, and well may it be for whole folidity whole Mountainsbp ripping up thei R ocky Bowels for Qua - were levelled, and vaft Deferts drowned w ith'd ep and fwallowing fands (wep ~ clean to the firm bottem p {tones, thofe that by negligenee committed tha errour, were to {uffer death without merc E th Jel th b d g d |