PEKING. THE CITY OE THE UNEXPECTED 



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Photograph by W. F. Robertson 



THE GATE TO THE IMPERIAL CITY: PEKING 



Occupying the center of the Inner (Tatar) City, the Imperial City is inclosed by a 

 rectangular brick wall. In the center of this city is the Purple Forbidden Palace, within 

 which, in turn, was the Emperor's Palace, containing many halls of vast proportions, 

 magnificently decorated. 



Tatars as possessing horses, asses, mules, 

 and "other peculiar breeds of the equine 

 family." These ancient other breeds still 

 trot about the Tatar city. 



A CITY WITHOUT A SKYEINE 



If streets and traffic, carts and camels 

 are unexpected, no less so are the build- 

 ings. The traveler who has seen pictures 



of the majestic temples and palaces of 

 Peking enters the imposing South Gate 

 prepared for architectural raptures. But 

 he finds the broad, straight highways of 

 the city lined with insignificant one-story 

 shops or with equally insignificant gray, 

 windowless, one-story house walls, or 

 long, unlovely, stretches of dull-red plas- 

 tered fence walls. 



