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Triong feaw the Tower of the Bell or which is a

very large bell I.
179 was formerly the palace of the founh fon of
the emperor Kong hi after the death of Krag hi.
This prince reigned under the name of Toog ething.
Ifis fon the prefent emperor caukd this palace to be
dernolifhed, and to be rebuilt with on extraordinary
magnificence. In the hall a the tablet of Ting
Irking; and there are in this palace grand apertments
kr the empener, when Ire gore thither to 110001.1e the
memory of his 'tither. The emperor hos wetted
here a temple of idols for else !erne of Thihet ; and
theo ere apartments for abort three hundred lank's.
Thefe haveChinek end Tartar dikiples to tie man-
ber of two hundred. Here are taught, in die Thi-
betan langeage, celed here Tas gout, the kiences,
arts, mathematics, phyfic, fpirituality, and the pagan
religion. In this bcautifel imloferc there are flaw-
.. and painters. This building is not at all infe-
rior in beauty and magnificence to thofe of the palace
of Peking, ...ore, which the prefent emperor is
going onto ere° in his pleaftarchouk,
tlio Kam be ben is the imperial college. The
groat hall, where Confucius is honouted, is a erry
iet.mjfeal one. These arelikavife halls for honouring
She difeiples of this phildopher and fereral eminent
Chinefe learned m., who have followed his doc-
teine with faeoefia The emperor goon thither form-
times to perform the ceremony to Confucius as ma-
ker and infinglor to the empire. The event.,
T., I., ,mpuor of ills l.b dynay AEv, built tisk too
tower.
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