. Peking and the overland route. us lilies are in bloomflat boats are jioled about the Pei Hai and much exertionmay be saved by taking a boat from the W lute Pagodato the points at the north oi the lake. (8) The Coal Hill, known to the (hinese as the Mei Shan(^|ll) J^-id also as (Jiiug Shan (ifcMl). which means Prospect Hi!!, is a high artili groimds 46 have not been made public, since the family and attend-ants of the Boy Emperor Hsuan Tunr; still oeenjiv thepalaces under the north Coal Hill from the North It is said tliat the mound, which is more than 200feet high, derieves its name f
. Peking and the overland route. us lilies are in bloomflat boats are jioled about the Pei Hai and much exertionmay be saved by taking a boat from the W lute Pagodato the points at the north oi the lake. (8) The Coal Hill, known to the (hinese as the Mei Shan(^|ll) J^-id also as (Jiiug Shan (ifcMl). which means Prospect Hi!!, is a high artili groimds 46 have not been made public, since the family and attend-ants of the Boy Emperor Hsuan Tunr; still oeenjiv thepalaces under the north Coal Hill from the North It is said tliat the mound, which is more than 200feet high, derieves its name from the coal which wnsstored in it by the Mongols as a provision against say that there is no coal in the hill, but that it wasbuilt up with the silt taken from the three lakes to thewest when the original marshes were drained to makedr>^ groimd for palaces and lakes for the pleasure parks ofKublai Khan. It is thought by many tl at wiiatever thematerial, the original pur]:)nse of the builder was to erect awatch-tower, a central look-out for soldiers over the palaceand the city about it. It is probable that all of thesetheories are true. The example of storing coal in a moundbehind the Imperial ])alaces was set by the Emperors ofthe Tang Dynasty at Hsianfu in Shensi, mariy centuriesbefore the Mongols came and there may have been evenearlier coal hills at other capitals. Some of the silt fromthe lake went into the bviilding of the mound upon whichthe bottle-shaped pag
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