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harous People, to ftrike them with a Fear and 

 Refpeft of his Imperial Majefty. 



For the Empire of China never had any 

 Enemies more to be feared than thefe Weft- 

 txnTartars which beginning on the Eaft of 

 China incompafs it with an almoft infinite of 

 People,and keep it asit were continually helea- 

 gured on the North and Weft fides there^ 

 of-, and 'twas to make a Bulwork againft 

 their Incurfions, that a Chinefe Emperor in 

 antient Times caufed this great Wall to be 

 Built^which ieparates China from theirGountry. 

 I have paired it four times, and have confi- 

 dered it very attentively. And I can fay 

 without Hyperbolizing, that all the feven 

 Wonders of the World put together, are not 

 comparable to this Work. And all that 

 Fame has fpread concerning it among the 

 Europeans^ i§ far ftiort of what I my felf have 

 feen. 



Two things have more efpecially caufed 

 my Admiration. The firft is, that in this 

 long extent from the Eaft to the Weft, it 

 paffes in feveral places not only through vaft 

 Champains, but alfo above the tops of ex- 

 ceeding high Mountains, upon which it is 

 raifed by little arid little, and fortify'd at 

 certain Intervals with great Towers ; not 

 diftant the one from the other more than 

 two flight Shot. At our return I had the 

 Curiofity to meafure the height of it in one 

 place by means of an Inftrument, and I found 

 that it was in that Place 1037 Geometrical 

 Feet above the Horifon ; in fuch fort that 

 'tis hard to comprehend how 'twas poffible to 

 devate this enormous Bulwork to the height 



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