. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. ome inpalanquins, others on horseback, and the rest in small, tilted carts with twowheels, which was the only kind of carriage known in the country, and,having no springs, is a very uneasy conveyance. The road is very broad,bordered on each side by willow trees of immense size, and paved with largeflat stones. The pavement is in the middle of the road, instead of at thesides as with us, which is easily accounted for by the rarity of wheel-car-riages, which are less common, even for long j
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. ome inpalanquins, others on horseback, and the rest in small, tilted carts with twowheels, which was the only kind of carriage known in the country, and,having no springs, is a very uneasy conveyance. The road is very broad,bordered on each side by willow trees of immense size, and paved with largeflat stones. The pavement is in the middle of the road, instead of at thesides as with us, which is easily accounted for by the rarity of wheel-car-riages, which are less common, even for long journeys, than sedans andhorses. The party was escorted by a guard of soldiers whose chief em-ployment the whole way, was to keep off the crowd with their whips, ofwhich they did not scruple to make very free use; but curiosity wasstronger than fear, and no sooner did the whips cease to play, than the mobagain pressed forward, while every wall, house-top, and tree, was throngedwith spectators. It was now the middle of August, and the emperor had not yet returned 8 114 CHINA, HISTORICAL AND Prooesso;) of ilie British Embassy along tlie Willow Avenue. to the capital from his palace at Zhehol, in Tartary, one of his numerousresidences, where it was customary for the court to reside during the months. Zhehol is a small, mean, and crowded city, about fifty milesto the north of the great wall, and standing about five thousand feet abovethe level of the Yellow sea; consequently it is much cooler than in China,and on that account is pleasant as a summer retreat. The country beyondthe wall is wild and mountainous, and bears in its principal features a greatresemblance to Savoy and Switzerland. There is a good road for generaltraffic all the way from Peking to Zhehol, parallel to which there is a pri-vate road, kept in the highest order by the soldiers, expressly for the use ofthe emperor and court. Travelling palaces, or imperial hotels, are erectedat certain dista
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