The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . e moated walls, over thirty feet inheight, of this far-famed and magnificent city, the capital ofKiangsu, and the silk metropolis of the Orient, founded duringthe lifetime of Confucius—five hundred years before the comingof Christ, and about the same time as the second temple of Jeru-salem was completed, in the time of Ezra. It is built on the banks of the Grand Canal, the aquatic high-way of the Middle Kingdom, and is nearly eighty miles to thewestward of Shanghai, between the Bay of Hangchow and themighty Yangtsze or Son of the Sea, that receiv
The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . e moated walls, over thirty feet inheight, of this far-famed and magnificent city, the capital ofKiangsu, and the silk metropolis of the Orient, founded duringthe lifetime of Confucius—five hundred years before the comingof Christ, and about the same time as the second temple of Jeru-salem was completed, in the time of Ezra. It is built on the banks of the Grand Canal, the aquatic high-way of the Middle Kingdom, and is nearly eighty miles to thewestward of Shanghai, between the Bay of Hangchow and themighty Yangtsze or Son of the Sea, that receives the watersof the canal some forty miles northward of the city, which boastsof six gates—the Tse-mun on the north, the Pen-mun on thesouth, the Sou-mun and Fu-raun on the east, and the Chang-munand Seu-mun on the west, the latter gate facing a range of lofty * For sometime tlic luadiiuaitcrs ot Miijur — attcrwnnis (iciieral (iordon —iluring bin udvuucc ou Soocliow, wlieii the eity wits lnM l>y the TaipinjjinHurgcntH. so > -3 32.
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