| Marco Polo - 1875 - 884 pągines
...at a later date was able to witness with his own eyes. And now we shall rehearse those particulars. First and foremost, then, the document stated the...are so well contrived that carts and horses do cross them.2] The document aforesaid also went on to state that there were in this city twelve guilds of... | |
| Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 318 pągines
...says, was " beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world." First and foremost, the city is so great that it hath an hundred miles of compass....marvel that there are so many bridges, for you see that the whole city stands as it were in the water and surrounded by water, so that a great many bridges... | |
| Harold Edward Gorst - 1899 - 336 pągines
...travellers can boast immunity— of what Chinese civilization is capable:— First and foremost, the city is so great, that it hath an hundred miles of compass....marvel that there are so many bridges, for you see that the whole city stands as it were in the water and surrounded by water, so that a great many bridges... | |
| Harold Edward Gorst - 1899 - 332 pągines
...fleet could pass beneath them. And let no man marvel that there are so many bridges, for you see that the whole city stands as it were in the water and...are so well contrived that carts and horses do cross them. There are in this city twelve guilds of the different crafts, and each guild has twelve thousand... | |
| Harold Edward Gorst - 1899 - 332 pągines
...boast immunity — of what Chinese civilization is capable : — First and foremost, the city is ao great, that it hath an hundred miles of compass. And...marvel that there are so many bridges, for you see that the whole city stands as it were in the water and surrounded by water, so that a great many bridges... | |
| Marco Polo - 1903 - 770 pągines
...at a later date was able to witness with his own eyes. And now we shall rehearse those particulars. First and foremost, then, the document stated the...are so well contrived that carts and horses do cross them.2] The document aforesaid also went on to state that there were in this city twelve guilds of... | |
| Etienne Balazs - 1967 - 340 pągines
...that it hath an hundred miles of compass. And there are in it twelve thousand bridges of stone, 18 for the most part so lofty that a great fleet could...stands as it were in the water and surrounded by water . . . there were in this city twelve guilds of the different crafts, and each guild had 12,000 houses... | |
| George Kish - 1978 - 482 pągines
...at a later date was able to witness with his own eyes. And now we shall rehearse those particulars. First and foremost, then, the document stated the...are so well contrived that carts and horses do cross them.] The document aforesaid also went on to state that there were in this city twelve guilds of the... | |
| Henry Allon - 1872 - 716 pągines
...Kinsey, with its 100 miles of circuit ! its 12,000 bridges, most of them lofty enough for a fleet ; ' and let no man marvel that there are so many bridges, for you see the whole city stands as is were in the water, and surrounded by water.' Then it has twelve guilds of the different crafts,... | |
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