Identifier: bookofsermarcopo00polo (find matches)
Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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South Gate of Imperial City at Peking. (tilt a bonze yoxtcz, zi &ox chnsntru portc a xtnz jgntnbbme palais rt biaus. i.e. 100 feet. A recent French paper states the dimensions of the existing walls as 14metres (45! feet) high, and I450 (47^ feet) thick, the top forming a pavedpromenade, unique of its kind, and recalling the legendary walls of Thebes andBabylon. (Ann. dHygiene Publiqne, 2nd s. torn, xxxii. for 1869, p. 21.) (According to the French astronomers (Fleuriais and Lapied) sent to Peking forthe Transit of Venus in December, 1875, the present Tartar city is 23 kil. 55 incircuit, viz. if I #=575 m., 41 li; from the north to the south 5400 metres ; from eastto west 6700 metres ; the wall is 13 metres in height and 12 metres in width.—H. C) Note 4.—Our attempted plan of Cambaluc, as in 1290, differs somewhat from thisdescription, but there is no getting over certain existing facts.
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A. D. 1290.

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