But There Was Some Kind Of Outer Wall About The City And Its Suburbs, The Circuit Of Which Is Called 75 Li.

["At the time of the Yuen the walls still existed, and the ancient city of the Kin was commonly called Nan-ch'eng (Southern city), whilst the Mongol capital was termed the northern city." Bretschneider, Peking, 10.

- H. C.] (Lockhart; and see Amyot, II. 553, and note 6 to last chapter.)

Polo correctly explains the name Cambaluc, i.e. Kaan-baligh, "The City of the Kaan."

NOTE 2. - The river that ran between the old and new city must have been the little river Yu, which still runs through the modern Tartar city, and fills the city ditches.

[Dr. Bretschneider (Peking, 49) thinks that there is a strong probability that Polo speaks of the Wen-ming ho, a river which, according to the ancient descriptions, ran near the southern wall of the Mongol capital. - H. C.]

[Illustration: South Gate of Imperial City at Peking.

"Elle a donze portes, et sor chascune porte a une grandisme palais et biaus."]

NOTE 3. - This height is from Pauthier's Text; the G. Text has, "twenty paces," i.e. 100 feet. A recent French paper states the dimensions of the existing walls as 14 metres (45-1/2 feet) high, and 14.50 (47-1/4 feet) thick, "the top forming a paved promenade, unique of its kind, and recalling the legendary walls of Thebes and Babylon." (Ann. d'Hygiene Publique, 2nd s. tom, xxxii.

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