. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . n thisdevice and that of Kiiblai Khan. This parallel is a very happy one. Note 13.—Friar Odoric gives a description, short, but closely agreeing in sub-stance with that in the Text, of the Palace, the Park, the Lake, and the Green Mount. A green mount, answering to the description, and about 160 feet in height, standsimmediately in rear of the palace buildings. It is called by the Chinese King-Shan,Court Mountain, Wan-sn-Shan, Ten Thousand Year Mount, and Mei-Shan,Coal Mount, the last from the materia
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . n thisdevice and that of Kiiblai Khan. This parallel is a very happy one. Note 13.—Friar Odoric gives a description, short, but closely agreeing in sub-stance with that in the Text, of the Palace, the Park, the Lake, and the Green Mount. A green mount, answering to the description, and about 160 feet in height, standsimmediately in rear of the palace buildings. It is called by the Chinese King-Shan,Court Mountain, Wan-sn-Shan, Ten Thousand Year Mount, and Mei-Shan,Coal Mount, the last from the material of which it is traditionally said to be com-posed (as a provision of fuel in case of siege).* Whether this is Kiiblais Green Mount * Some years ago, in Calcutta, I learned that a large store of charcoal existed under the soil ofFort William, deposited there, I believe, in the early days of that fortress. [The Jihia says that the name of Met shaft (Coal hill) was given to it from the stock of coalburied at its foot, as a provision in case of siege. {Bretschneider, Peking, 38.)—H. 372 MARCO POLO Book IT. does nol seem to be quite certain. Dr. Lock hart tells me that, according to the in-formation he collected when living at Peking, it is not so, but was formed by theMing Emperors from the excavation of the existing lake on the site which the MongolPalace had occupied. There is another mount, he adds, adjoining the east shore ofthe lake, which must be of older date even than Kublai, for a Dagoba standing on itis ascribed to the Kin. [The Green Mount was an island called ICiung-hita at the time of the Kin-; in1271 it received the name of Wan-sui shan ; it is about 100 feet in height, and is theonly hill mentioned by Chinese writers of the Mongol time who refer to the palacegrounds. It is not the present King-s/ian, north of the palace, called also Wan-sui-s/ian under the Ming, and now the JMei-shan, of more recent formation. I have nodoubt, says Bretschneider {Peking, I.
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