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Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ide. The outer wall forms a square of 4 li (\\ mile) tothe side, and has six gates. The foundations of temples and palace-buildings can betraced, and both enclosures are abundantly strewn with blocks of marble and frag-ments of lions, dragons, and other sculptures, testifying to the former existence of aflourishing city, but exhibiting now scarcely one stone upon another. A brokenmemorial tablet was found, half buried in the ground, within the north-east angle ofthe outer rampart, bearing an inscription in an antique form of the Chinese character,which proves it to have been erected by Kublai, in honour of a Buddhist ecclesiasticcalled Yun-Hien. Yun - Hien was the abbot of one of those great minsters and * This distance is taken from a tracing of the map prepared for Dr. Bushells paper quoted below.But there is a serious discrepancy between this tracing and the observed position of Dolon-nor, whichdetermines that of Shang-tu, as stated to me in a letter from Dr. Bushell. (See Note 1.)
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Heading In the Old Chinese Seal-Character, of an Inscription on a Memorial raised by KublAi-Kaan to a Buddhist Ecclesiastic in the vicinity of his Summer-Palace at Shang-tu in Mongolia. Reduced from a facsimile obtained on the spot by Dr. S. IV. Bushell, 1872.(About one-Fourth the Length and Breadth of Original.) (Toface/>. 305. Chap. LXI. THE KAANS PALACE AT SHANGTU 305 abbeys of Bacsis, of which Marco speaks, and the exact date (no longer visible) of themonument was equivalent to a.d. 1288.* This city occupies the south-east angle of a more extensive enclosure, bounded bywhat is now a grassy mound, and embracing, on Dr. Bushells estimate, about 5square miles. Further knowledge may explain the discrepancy from Marcos dimen-sion, but this must be the park of which he speaks, f The woods and fountains havedisappeared, like the temples and palaces ; all is dreary and desolate, though stillabounding in the game which was one of Kublais attractions to the spot. A smallmonastery, occupi

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