Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 94
ANOTHER FORT ONTHE WALL OF PEKING. COLOSSAL ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS ON THE PEKING WALL. Many hundred years old, but as bronzecastings they are reckoned to be amongstthe finest in the world. And as astro-nomical instruments their results differvery little from those obtained by as-tronomers from… … COLOSSAL ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS ON THE PEKING WALL. CHIEN MUN GATE. Perhaps the most interesting and pic-turesque feature of the country is itscity gates. There is a great familylikeness between them, the usual fort-like building surmounting the wallwhere it is pierced by the gate. It isnot a…
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