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ing of all this was made at large, and then re- 
duced to a fmaller fcale, as it appears here. I 
will not undertake for the perfect exadtnefs of it, 
either in the meafures or the reduction. All this is 
by a Chinefe hand. The toot made ule of in this 
menfuration is to that of h ranee as 1000 to 1016. 
1800 of thefe feet make a ly *. By the fcale to be 
feen in the final! plan, and from the dimenfions of 
the fouth and eaft walls of King teking , may be de- 
duced all the dimenfions. The circumference of 
the walls of the Chinefe city has been formerly mea- 
fured, and well, by feveral meafures ; and the retult 
of them may be feen here by the fcale. 
The fouth wall of Kwg tching is from eaft to 
weft eleven ly and near a third. The eaft wall from 
north to fouth is nine ly and fome paces. So that 
the city is not Square, as feveral perfons have written. 
The perfons employed by the emperor to meafure 
did not think of meafuring the Space, which con- 
tains the houfe and church of the congregation de 
propaganda fide. This houfe and church are Situated 
to the South between number 207 and a Small bridge 
to the weft of number 201. 
In the accounts Sufficient mention has been made 
of the walls and gates of the city of King t chi ng ; 
for which reafon it is not neceflary for me to fay 
any thing concerning it. 
In the year of our Lord 1267, the Tartar em- 
peror Koublay ban (in Chinefe Yuen chi tfou) built 
* The feet are different in China; but 1800 feet always make 
a ly. According to the meafure of the foot the ly will be greater 
or lefs. 
the 
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