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kave of people of note ; in this cafe you are 

 carried into the city in a covered chair, and 

 thus you do not get a fight of any thing worth 

 notice in the place. The centinels have whips 

 inflead of multets. Three fourths of this 

 fortified town (which, as we are told, is inha- 

 bited on one fide by the Tartars , on the other 

 by Chinefe) is furrounded by the fuburbs. On 

 the outfide of that part of the city which is 

 open to the country, is a fine walk between the 

 wall and the ditch. The plantations begin 

 clofe to the ditches ; they are moflly on low 

 grounds, contain all forts of greens, roots 

 and rice, and reach as far as you can fee. 

 The dry hills ferve for burying places, and 

 paitures for cattle. 



The city wall confifb of hewn fand-ftones, 

 is covered with all forts of little trees and 

 plants, videlicet, Ficus hdica, Urtica nivea, 

 &c. and on the top of them are centry boxes; 

 however, the watch is fo ill obferved, that 

 Grangers palling by are often welcomed with 

 fuch a volley of Hones that their lives are endan- 

 gered ; as happened to an Englishman during 

 my flay. It is faid that on the walls are fome 

 eight or nine pounders ; at leaf! it is certain, 

 that at. eight o'clock at night their report is 

 P 4 heard. 



