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kept. At the eaft of the Tay ho then is like wife a 
fine palace, where the prince heir, with his court, 
refided in the time of the emperor Kanghi. It is a 
very beautiful palace, and highly ornamented. 
In the inclofure of Kong t doing, or T/e kin, there 
are tribunals, a great number of magazines, manu- 
factures, the imperial apothecary’s (hop and printing- 
houfe j fchools for the Chinefe and Tartar languages ; 
and feveral temples of idols, one of which, lately 
made for the lamas, coft immenfe fums. 
N°. 26, 28, 29, are the gates of the great inclofure 
called Kin chan. It is properly a beautiful pleafure- 
houfe, which the prefent empero;: has caufed to be 
extremely embellifhed. There are in it fine gardens 
with walks of trees, very rich and elegant apartments, 
halls for the muficians and comedians. From the 
mountain m, the lad emperor of the dynafty Ming , 
feeing the city taken by the rebels, hanged himfelf 
on the morning of the 15 th of April of the year of 
our Lord 1644. On the day before, the 14th of 
April, the emprefs hanged herfelf in the evening in 
the palace. The mountain in Kin chan was made 
by art a long time ago. ^ ? 
At the w T eft of the inclofure Kin chan and ife kin 
obferve the great laos. 54 is the peta, or white py- 
ramid. This pyramid (lands on a Imall mountain, 
which makes an ifland. The prefent emperor has 
built there, in the form of an amphitheatre, I da 
not know how many apartments with covered and 
open galleries, well built, and in a good tafte : the 
point of view is charming, and the galleries, which 
run over the lake, are extremely beautiful. There 
are two or three temples of idols. 53 lS a 4 ne 
