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Seventeen Arch Bridge
Seventeen Arch Bridge

No. 872, PEKIN.

The plains in the vicinity of the Emperors summer palace are rich with handsome monuments, and none are more perfect than this suburb brige of seventeen arches.

The ruins of the palace so well known to foreigners as Wan-shou-shan, may be observed on a distant knoll, that rises in the right hand side of the view