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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 |
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Citation Information
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Boob II.
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as many water-mills, and 'tis all of very fine marble,
well built and firmly founded. Along the top of the
bridge idge there is on either side a parapet of marble slabs
and columns, made in this way. At the beginning of
the bridge there is a marble column, and under it a
marble
lion, so that the column stands upon the lion's
loins, whilst on the top of the column there is a second
marble lion, both being of great size and beautifully
executed sculpture. At the distance of a pace from
this column there is another precisely the same, also
MARCO POLO
The Bridge of Pulisanghin. (Reduced from a Chinese original.)
"—et beau$ rczt fluor a un input bias Pont be pirr.ez : .car za.chiez qc pant n'a .en tout le manbe be zi bian$ ne z.on pareil."
with its two lions, and the space between them is closed
with slabs of grey marble to prevent people from falling
over into the water. And thus the columns run from
space to space along either side of the bridge, so that
altogether it is a beautiful object.'
NOTE —[When Marco leaves the capital, he takes the main road, the " Imperial Highway," from Peking to Si-ngan fu, via Pao-ting, Cheng-ting, Hwai-luh, Táï-yuan, Ping-yang, and T'ung-kwan, on the Yellow River. Mr. G. F, Eaton, writing from
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