Mission. Soc., now residing at
Hang-chau. These are partly contained in a paper (Notes on Colonel
Yule's Edition of Marco Polo's 'Quinsay') read before the North China
Branch of the R.A.Soc. at Shang-hai in December 1873 [published in New
Series, No. IX. of the Journal N.C.B.R.A.Soc.], of which a proof has
been most kindly sent to me by Mr. Moule, and partly in a special
communication, both forwarded through Mr. A. Wylie. [See also Notes
on Hangchow Past and Present, a paper read in 1889 by Bishop G.E.
Moule at a Meeting of the Hangchau Missionary Association, at whose
request it was compiled, and subsequently printed for private
circulation. - H.C.]
[2] The building of the present Luh-ho-ta ("Six Harmonies Tower"), after
repeated destructions by fire, is recorded on a fine tablet of the
Sung period, still standing (Moule).
CHAPTER LXXVII.
[FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE GREAT CITY OF KINSAY.[NOTE 1]]
[The position of the city is such that it has on one side a lake of fresh
and exquisitely clear water (already spoken of), and on the other a very
large river. The waters of the latter fill a number of canals of all sizes
which run through the different quarters of the city, carry away all
impurities, and then enter the Lake; whence they issue again and flow to
the Ocean, thus producing a most excellent atmosphere.
