[30] “You would think them all made of, or at least covered with, pure gold enamelled in azure and green, so that the spectacle is at once majestic and charming.” Magaillans, Nouvelle Description de la Chine, p. 353.
[31] See also L’Univers Pittoresque, Chine Moderne, par MM. Pauthier et Bazin, Paris, 1853, for a good map of Peking, with careful descriptions. Yule’s Marco Polo, passim. De Guigues, Voyages, Tome I. Williamson, Journeys in North China, Vol. II. Dr. Rennie, Peking and the Pekingese. Tour du Monde for 1864, Tome II.
[32] Chinese Repository, Vol. IX., p. 259.
[33] Dr. Martin, The Chinese (New York, 1881), p. 85.
[34] Compare Kircher, China Illustrata, where an engraving of it may be seen. A bell near Mandalay, mentioned by Dr. Anderson, is 12 feet high, 16 feet across the lips, and weighs 90 tons—evidently a heavier monster than this in Peking. (Mandalay to Momien, p. 18.)
[35] Chinese Repository, Vol. IV., p. 181.
[36] Compare the Annales de la Foi, Tome X., p. 100, for interesting details concerning the Romish missionaries in Peking. Also Pauthier’s Chine Moderne, pp. 8-36 (Paris, 1852), containing an excellent map. Bretschneider’s Archeological and Historical Researches on Peking, etc., published in the Chinese Recorder, Vol. VI. (1875, passim). Mémoires concernant l’Histoire, les Sciences, les Arts, les Moeurs, les Usages, etc., des Chinois, par les Missionnaires de Pekin; 16 vols., Paris, 1797-1814. N. B. Dennys, Notes for Tourists in the North of China; Hongkong, 1866.
[37] Journal of Lord Amherst’s Embassy to China, 2d ed., p. 22. London, 1840.
[38] Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, Vol. I., p. 293. London, 1827.
[39] Williamson, Journeys in North China, Vol. II., p. 90.