Hun Ho Means "Muddy River," And The
Term Is Quite Suitable.
In the last century, the Emperor K'ien-lung ordered
the Hun-ho to be named Yung-ting ho, a name found on modern maps, but the
people always call it Hun ho (Bretschneider, Peking, p. 54.) - H.C.]
The River is that which appears in the maps as the Hwan Ho, Hun-ho, or
Yongting Ho, flowing about 7 miles west of Peking towards the south-east
and joining the Pe-Ho at Tientsin; and the Bridge is that which has been
known for ages as the Lu-kou-Kiao or Bridge of Lukou, adjoining the town
which is called in the Russian map of Peking Feuchen, but in the official
Chinese Atlas Kung-Keih-cheng. (See Map at ch. xi. of Bk. II. in the
first Volume.) ["Before arriving at the bridge the small walled city of
Kung-ki cheng is passed. This was founded in the first half of the 17th
century. The people generally call it Fei-ch'eng" (Bretschneider,
Peking, p. 50.) - H.C.] It is described both by Magaillans and Lecomte,
with some curious discrepancies, whilst each affords particulars
corroborative of Polo's account of the character of the bridge. The former
calls it the finest bridge in China. Lecomte's account says the bridge was
the finest he had yet seen. "It is above 170 geometrical paces (850 feet)
in length. The arches are small, but the rails or side-walls are made of
a hard whitish stone resembling marble.
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