 The neighboring country is very charming, hilly towards the east, and presenting, in that quarter, a beautiful prospect. The houses are mostly of one story ; but those of the mandarins and principal merchants are high and well built. In every quarter...  A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer - Page 298by George Newenham Wright - 1835Full view - About this book
 | China - 1833 - 530 pages
...are mostly of one story ; but those pf the mandarins and principal merchants are high and well built. In every quarter of the town and the suburbs are seen...arches. Shops line the sides, and an unbroken range of piazza protects the occupants of the houses, as well as fool-passengers, from the rays of the sun.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 608 pages
...are mostly of one story ; but those of the mandarins and principal merchants are high and well built. In every quarter of the town and the suburbs are seen...arches. Shops line the sides, and an unbroken range of piazza protects the occupants of tin; houses, as well as foot-passengers, from the rays of the sun.... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...are mostly of one story ; but those of the mandarins and principal merchants are high and well built. In every quarter of the town and the suburbs are seen...arches. Shops line the sides, and an unbroken range of piazza protects the occupants of the houses, as well as foot-passengers, from the rays of the sun.... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1836 - 502 pages
...i|4il merchants lire 28 high anil well built. In every quarter of the town .•.ml the suburbs ore seen temples and pagodas, containing the images of...paved with flat stones, and adorned at intervals with triumplial arches. Shops line Ule sides, and an unbroken range of piazza protects tile occupants of... | |
 | 1837 - 490 pages
...are mostly of one story ; but those of the mandarins and principal merchants are high and well built. In every quarter of the town and the suburbs are seen...arches. Shops line the sides, and an unbroken range of piazza protects the occupants of the houses, as well as foot-passengers, from the rays of the sun.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 618 pages
...are mostly of one story ; but those of the mandarine and principal merchants are high and well built. In every quarter of the town and the suburbs are seen...and narrow, paved with flat stones, and adorned at intervale with triumphal arches. Shops line the sides, and an unbroken range of piazza protects the... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 258 pages
...mostly of one story ; but those of the mandarins and principal merchants are high and well built ; in every quarter of the town and the suburbs are seen temples and pagodas. The populous streets are long and narrow, paved with flat stones, and adorned at intervals with triumphal... | |
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