Each Side Of The Square Has Three Principal Gates, Or Twelve In All, Having Sumptuous Palaces Built Over Each; And There Are Pavilions In All The Angles Of The Wall, Where The Arms Of The Garrison Are Kept, Being 1000 Men For Each Gate.

The whole buildings of this city are exactly squared, and all the streets are laid out in straight lines;

So that a free prospect is preserved from gate to gate, through the whole city; and the houses are built on each side like palaces, with courts and gardens, divided according to the heads of families. In the middle of the whole, there is a noble building, in which a great bell is suspended, after the tolling of which, at a certain hour of the night, no person must go out of his house till the dawn of next morning, except it be for some urgent cause, as for assistance to a woman in labour, and even then they must carry lights. On the outside of the walls there are twelve large suburbs, extending three or four miles in length, from each gate, and there are more inhabitants in these suburbs than within the walls. In these, foreign merchants, and other strangers live, each nation having several storehouses and bazars, in which they lodge and keep their goods. No dead body is allowed to be burnt or buried within the city; but the bodies of the idolaters are burned without the suburbs, and the bodies of all other sects are buried in the same places.

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