 | Sir Henry Yule - 1866 - 462 pàgines
...thickness, and the large stones on the top were bound together with clamps of iron." (Staunton, ii, 302.) the rainy season without sticking in the mud. The...cattle feed on the leaves. Shops, taverns, and villages lino the road on both sides, so that dwelling succeeds dwelling without intermission throughout the... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule - 1866 - 610 pàgines
...in order to prevent the earth giving way.3 Along the side of the canal runs the high road to Machin, extending for a space of forty days' journey, and...travellers and their animals may get along during 1 The two rivers are the Sha-ho and Peho, which unite below Peking, afterwards bearing the latter name.... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 592 pàgines
...earth giving way. Along the side of the Canal runs the high road to Machin, extending for a space of 40 days' journey, and this has been paved throughout,...animals may get along during the rainy season without sinking in the mud Shops, taverns, and villages line the road on both sides, so that dwelling succeeds... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 668 pàgines
...earth giving way. Along the side of the canal runs the high road to Machin, extending for a space of 40 days' journey, and this has been paved throughout,...animals may get along during the rainy season without sinking in the mud Shops, taverns, and villages line the road on both sides, so that dwelling succeeds... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 768 pàgines
...earth giving way. Along the side of the canal runs the high road to Machin, extending for a space of 40 days' journey, and this has been paved throughout,...animals may get along during the rainy season without sinking in the mud. . . . Shops, taverns, and villages line the road on both sides, so that dwelling... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule - 1914 - 308 pàgines
...in the third month of 1260.] giving way1. Along the side of the canal runs the high road to Machin, extending for a space of forty days' journey, and...allowed, whether soldier or otherwise, to break branches off those trees or to let cattle feed on the leaves. Shops, taverns, and villages line the road on... | |
 | Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi - 1917 - 400 pàgines
...side of the canal runs the high road to Machin, extending for a space of 30 days' journey, and thus has been paved throughout, so that travellers and...animals may get along during the rainy season without sinking in the mud Shops, taverns and villages line the road on both sides, so that dwelling succeeds... | |
 | Kevin Bishop - 1997 - 256 pàgines
...the earth giving way. Along the side of the canal runs the high road to [the southern provinces]... and this has been paved throughout, so that travellers...allowed, whether soldier or otherwise, to break branches off those trees or let cattle feed on the leaves. Shops, taverns, and villages line the road on both... | |
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Miichin, extending for a space of forty days' journey, and this has been paved throughout, so that travellers and their animals may get along during the rainy season without sticking in the mud. 