372 CHIEF FEATURES OF PEKING. Chap. XXII. 
and for its high and massive walls, ramparts, and 
watch-towers. Its straight and wide streets are 
different from those of any other Chinese town 
which has come under my observation. Its impe- 
rial palaces, summer-houses, and temples, with 
their quaint roofs and yellow tiles, are very 
striking objects ; and the number of private dwell- 
ings, situated amongst trees and gardens sur- 
rounded with high walls, give a country or 
park-like appearance to the great city. The trees 
and gardens of the palaces, with King-shan, or 
“ Prospect Hill,’* are objects of considerable in- 
terest, as is also the Lama mosque, suggesting, 
it does, some connexion in times long gone 
with Thibet or India. 
