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12. View of a remarkable pagoda at Lin-tsin-tcheou, the place where the grand canal commences, with groups of figures, landscape, etc.
13. A view of men tracking the barges against the stream of the Pei-ho with a group of figures on an eminence.
14. View of the Lui-jung-ta or Temple of the thundering winds on a promontory that juts into the lake Si-hoo near Hang-tcheou-foo. This temple is said to have been built 500 years before the birth of Christ. The architecture appears to be very different from any in use at this time in China. Tombs of various kinds are introduced into this drawing.
15. A view of Chinese and Tartar Cavalry with soldiers of various kinds amusing themselves with shooting and other exercises.
16. The approach of the Emperor to the great Tent in which the Embassador had his first introduction in Tartary. The Emperor is carried in a Chair by 16 men preceeded by princes of the blood, and an immense crowd of mandarins and drawn up in two ranks to receive him.
17. View of the splendid theatre at Tien-sing created for the purpose of entertaining the Embassador whilst he halted to pay a visit to the Viceroy of Pe-tche-li.
18. A view within the walls of the Imperial palace in Pekin being the mount on which the last of the Chinese Emperors, on hearing that the usurper had entered the Capital, stabbed his daughter and then hanged himself.