Chambers, William: A Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (London: Griffin [u.a.], 1773)

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mentions one of them, that cost upwards of two
hundred thousand pounds, exclusive of the furniture;
another, consisting of a hundred rooms: and says, that
most of them are sufficiently capacious to lodge the
greatest European lord, and his whole retinue. There
is likewise, in the same garden, a fortified town, with its
port, streets, public squares, temples, markets, /hops,
and tribunals of justice : in short, with every thing that
is at Pekin; only upon a smaller scale.
In this town the emperors of China, who are too
much the ssaves of their greatness to appear in public,
and their women, who are excluded from it by custom,
are frequently diverted with the hurry and bustle of the
capital; which is there represented, sederal times in the
year, by the eunuchs of the palace: seme of them
personating merchants, others artists, artificers, officersy
soldiers, {hopkeepers, porters, and even thieves and
pickpockets, On the appointed day, each puts on the
habit os his profession ; the fliips arrive at the port, the
{hops are opened, and the goods are offered to sale : tea-
housesa