 | Jacob Abbott - China - 1835 - 276 pages
...red, green, azure and violet, — and the sort of covering is so strong as to last for many years. The glazing of the windows is so well wrought, and...delicate, as to have the transparency of crystal. In the rear of the body of the palace, there are large buildings containing several apartments, where... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Asia - 1844 - 340 pages
...building. The outside of the roof is adorned by a variety of colors, red, green, blue, and violet. The glazing of the windows is so well wrought, and...delicate, as to have the transparency of crystal. Not far from the palace, on the northern side, is an artificial mount of earth, a hundred paces high,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Heating - 1845 - 284 pages
...they introduce air to the different floors and to every apartment at pleasure." — Ibid. p. 7.37. Marsden in a note on this passage observes, they have...may be that the pellucid substance, perhaps talc, or lamlnse of shells, was so delicately wrought as to have nearly the transparency of crystal." The manufacture... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Heating - 1845 - 280 pages
...in ships. — Ibid. p. 740. Polo also observes, that " in the palace of the Great Khan, at Kanhaln, the glazing of the windows is so well wrought and...may be that the pellucid substance, perhaps talc, or lamlnee of shells, was so delicately wrought as to have nearly the transparency of crystal." The manufacture... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 548 pages
...vernia rouge."—Tom. i . p. 117. 2 The roofs are invariably covered with baked tiles, which, for the The glazing of the windows is so well wrought and...so delicate as to have the transparency of crystal. 1 In the rear of the body of the palace there are large buildings containing several apartments, where... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - China - 1877 - 430 pages
...colours, red, green, azure, and violet, and the sort of covering is so strong as to last for many years. The glazing of the windows is so well wrought and...so delicate as to have the transparency of crystal. In the rear of the body of the palace there are 52 Palace of Heir-apparent. large buildings containing... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 442 pages
...red, green, azure, and violet — and the sort of covering is so strong as to last for many years. The glazing of the windows is so well wrought and...so delicate as to have the transparency of crystal. In the rear of the body of the palace there are large buildings containing several apartments, where... | |
 | Marco Polo - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 324 pages
...colours, red, green, azure, and violet, and the sort of covering is so strong as to last for many years. The glazing of the windows is so well wrought and so delicate as to have the transparency of crystal In the rear of the body of the palace there are large buildings containing several apartments, where... | |
 | Marco Polo - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 492 pages
...colours, red, green, azure, and violet, and the sort of covering is so strong as to last for many years. The glazing of the windows is so well wrought and...so delicate as to have the transparency of crystal. In the rear of the body of the palace there are large buildings containing several apartments, where... | |
 | John Masefield - 2002 - 530 pages
...colours, red, green, azure, and violet, and the sort of covering is so strong as to last for many years.2 The glazing of the windows is so well wrought and so delicate as to have the transparency of crystal.3 In the rear of the body of the palace there are large buildings containing several apartments,... | |
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In the rear of the body of the palace there are large buildings containing several apartments, where is deposited the private property of the monarch, or his treasure in gold and silver bullion, precious stones, and pearls, and also his vessels of gold... 
