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Triumphal 

 Arches. 



EtIRoPEAN 

 FaCI OKIES. 



exalted rocks ; fome are excavated into manfions, and every 

 ledge has on it its elegant cottage ; fwarms of people inhabit the 

 edges of precipices, as the myriads of birds do the great promon- 

 tories oi Britain. Paths are cut through the rocks to render them 

 accclTible, and over fome are condu<5led even public roads. I have 

 feen feveral of thefe populated rocks moil: accurately reprefented 

 in rice, with all the ceconomy of their inhabitants expreiTed. 



The city is divided into three; \X\z Tartarian^ the Chinefey 

 and a third beyond the firft, which is reprefented on the plan as 

 a void fpace. The ftreets are narrow, but well paved ; and crofs 

 each other at right angles. The whole is furrounded with a wall ; 

 and each city feparated from the other by another wall. The 

 gates of Canton are fliat in the evening, as are the barriers at 

 the end of every ftreet, fo that the greateft cities are as quiet as 

 a private family. 



Triumphal arches are very frequent in mofl: of the cities; 

 the ancient are the mod elegant, adorned with beautiful figures 

 of men, birds, and flowers in alt-relief, quite ftanding from the 

 ftone, and connected only by cordons left for the purpofe. Thcfe 

 monuments are probably honorary memorials of the great ac- 

 tions of individuals. 



In front, on each fide of the city, and on the oppofite 

 Ihore of the river, are large fuburbs. The factories of the Eu- 

 ropean merchants con (ill of a long row of houfes, ranged on the 

 river fide, and a fi)ace of land behind, about two hundred 

 yards broad; each has a warehoufe for its goods. The mer- 

 cantile nations are the Eng/iJ/j^ French, IniperiaUfls, Dutchy 

 Szvedes and Danes. Each fadory has the flag of its country 



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