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each feems the production of a different country. He 

 mentions one of them, that coft upwards of twd 

 hundred thoufand pounds, exclufive of the furniture ; 

 another, confirming of a hundred rooms: and fays, that 

 moft of them are fufficiently capacious to lodge the 

 greateft European lord, and his whole retinue. There is 

 likewife, in the fame garden, a fortified town, with its 

 port, ftreets, public fquares, temples, markets, fhops, 

 and tribunals of juftice : in fhort, with every thing that 

 is at Pekin ; only upon a fmaller fcale. 



In this town the emperors of China, who are too much 

 the ilaves of their greatnefs to appear in public, and their 

 women, who are excluded from it by cuftom, are fre- 

 quently diverted with the hurry and buftle of the capital; 

 which is there reprefented, feveral times in the year, by 

 the eunuchs of the palace : fome of them perfonating 

 merchants, others artifts, artificers, officers, foldiers, fhop- 

 keepers, porters, and even thieves and pickpockets. On 

 the appointed day, each puts on the habit of his pro- 

 feflion: the fhips arrive at the port, the fhops are opened, 



and 



