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

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with a marble balustrade, whose pedestals are adorned
with lions, and other works of sculpture. The whole
length of the bridge is sixteen thousand two hundred feet,
or upwards of three miles; its width is forty-two feet;
and the blocks of which it is composed, are each fifty-
sour feet long, and six feet diameter.
The Cientao, or Way of Pillars, is a communication
between many precipices, built to Shorten a road to
Pe-king. It is near four miles long, of a considerable
wridth, and supported over the vallies upon arches and
done piers of a terrifying height.
In the mountains, on each side of these imperial roads,
are ereded a great number of buildings, surrounded with
cypress groves, and adorned with works of sculpture,
which asford constant entertainment to the passengers:
these are the monuments of their wise men, their saints,
and their warriors, ereded at the expence of the flate,
and furniflied with nervous inscriptions, in the Chinese
language, giving an account of the lives and adions of
those
 
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