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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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ublic of-fices, all the foreign legations. Christian mis-sions and many other places of special note.The principal streets of the General City areunpaved and are lined with rows of shops,painted red, blue and green and decorated withcurious signs of Chinese characters in gildingor gayly-painted colors. These shops are sur-mounted by balustrades, and there are terraceson the roofs. The dwelling houses are usuallyof one story, and all, from palace to hovel, haveone general style of steep, concave roof. The yellow or green tiles of the public build-ings, the dragons heads and the earthen dogsat the corners of the temples and official housesmake some of the streets very picturesque.The most interesting places to be found in theGeneral City are the Hall of the Classics, con-taining 172 pillared slabs of granite, having thetext of all the classical books engraved onthem; the Drum and Bell Towers, each over100 feet high, which are sounded at nightwatches and can be heard throughout the city;
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ONE OF PEKINGS GATESThe one shown is the entrance to the Forbid-den City. the Mohammedan Mosque, the chief resort ofthe Moslems who come to the capital; and theTemple of Emperors and Kings. The Chinese, or Outer, City. This part ofPeking was built during the thirteenth century.Here most of the mercantile business is cen-tered. Many trades are carried on in thestreets, in tents or in movable shops. Among PELEE 4553 PELICAN its important buildings are the Altar of Heaven,with its surrounding temples and shrines; theTemple of Heaven, in which the emperor atmidnight in the winter solstice once offeredsacrifices; and the Temple of Agriculture, nearwhich, each spring, the emperor plowed one ormore furrows to inaugurate the opening of theseason. In this section are found a great pow-der factory, great pottery works and numeroustheaters. The manufactures of Peking are unimportant.The industries are almost entirely related tothe government, only such commercial andmanufacturing enterprises bei

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