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Title: A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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-ped. Peking, or the Northern Capital, if not thelargest, is yet the most important, being theseat of the imperial power. It is situated inthe Chihli province, amid a sandy plain, inlatitude 39° 54 north, and longitude 116° 27east, nearly on the parallel of Ihiladelphia.Its entire circuit, including, the suburbs, Inisbeen estimated at 25 miles, and its area at 27sq. m.; and its population from 1,500,000 to3,000,.000. The truth may be between thetwo extremes, perhaps about 2,000,000. It isan ancient city, but did not become the seatof government until 1282, during the reign oftlie celebrated Mogul enii)eror, Kublai Khan,who subsetiucutly made llangchau, his inipe-
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CHINA 249 rial residence. After tlie expulsion of theMonguls, the emperors of the Ming dynasty heldtheir court at Hiang-ning-foo, now called Nan-■ king, until Yungloh its third monarch, in1411, made Peking the seat of government,which has ever since been the residence of tlieimperial court. This city consists of two parts,the one containing about 12 sq. ni., being thenorthern or Tartar city, including the imperialpalace and the government buildings ; and theother, called the southern or outer city, beingoccupied by the Chinese. The walls arc 30feet high, 25 thick at the base, and 12 at thetop, being surmounted with a parapet, and sur-rounded with a ditch. Near the gates, 16 inall, the walls are faced with stone, and else-where with large bricks, laid in mortar, whichin time become nearly as hard as stone. Be-tween the facings, the wall is composed ofearth taken from the surrounding ditch.Square towers, projecting 50 feet from theouter margin of the walls, occur at intervals ofabout

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