China As Described By Great Writers
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Its colossal walls are fifty feet high, and at their summit are fifty feet wide. Their external fronts consist of two strong brick walls, rising from a substructure of stone. The interior is filled up with earth, and the summit, covered with flag- stones, forms a walk bordered by embattled stone parapets.
Bastions project outwards, and huge pavilions built of brick, pierced with many balastraria, and coated with highly-var- nished coloured tiles, ornament its four corners and gates.
It rises on...ly ninety-nine feet above the ground, beyond which height it is never allowed to build, lest the flight of the good spirits might be inconvenienced thereby. This magnificent rampart, which to the northeast and to the west rises abruptly from the midst of the country, Peking having no suburbs, presents a most imposing aspect ; and it is not less impressive when beheld from any one of the half-moons, which are very vast, and are built before the various gates, but which, owing to the height of the em- battled walls which surround them on all sides, each of which is surmounted by a massive brick pavilion, look like wells.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Its colossal walls are fifty feet high, and at their summit are fifty feet wide. Their external fronts consist of two strong brick walls, rising from a substructure of stone. The interior is filled up with earth, and the summit, covered with flag- stones, forms a walk bordered by embattled stone parapets.
Bastions project outwards, and huge pavilions built of brick, pierced with many balastraria, and coated with highly-var- nished coloured tiles, ornament its four corners and gates.
It rises on...ly ninety-nine feet above the ground, beyond which height it is never allowed to build, lest the flight of the good spirits might be inconvenienced thereby. This magnificent rampart, which to the northeast and to the west rises abruptly from the midst of the country, Peking having no suburbs, presents a most imposing aspect ; and it is not less impressive when beheld from any one of the half-moons, which are very vast, and are built before the various gates, but which, owing to the height of the em- battled walls which surround them on all sides, each of which is surmounted by a massive brick pavilion, look like wells.
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