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feet, or upwards of three miles ; its width is forty-two- 

 feet ; and the blocks of which it is compofed are each 

 fifty-four feet long, and fix feet diameter. 



The Cientao, or Way of Pillars, is a communication 

 between many precipices, built to fhorten the road to 

 Pekin. It is near four miles long, of a considerable 

 width, and fupported over the vallies upon arches and 

 ftone piers of a terrifying height. 



In the mountains, on each fide of thefe imperial roads, 

 are erected a great number of buildings, adorned with 

 colofTal ftatues, and other works of fculpture, which 

 afford conftant entertainment to the paffengers. Thefe 

 are the monuments of their wife men, their faints, and; 

 their warriors, erected at the expence of the ftate, and 

 furnifhed with nervous infcriptions, in the Chinefe lan- 

 guage, giving an account of the lives and actions of thofe 

 they commemorate: fome of thefe buildings are diftributed 

 into many fpacious courts and (lately apartments, being; 

 little inferior to palaces, either in magnificence or extent. 



Inftead- 



