no                   Travel* &ver Land
% he is obliged to Naturalize himfelf a Manfur or Tartar. Moft
of the Inhabitants within the Walls of Peking are Tartars, and the
principal Chinefe Markets and Goods are kept without in the Suburbs.
All rich People keep a certain number of Slaves for the Emperour's
Service, for which they receive an Annual ftipend from him j and
thefe Men in time of War are obliged to be kept ready Armed,
Cloathed, and mounted on Horfeback. The Jefuits who were at
Peking when I was there, were but eight; of which two were Spani-
ards^ three Portugueze^ two French-Men and the laft a Roman.
The-Cbitefe, but efpecially the Courtiers retain a very great refpeft
.for-thefe Fathers, and the other Ecclefiaflicks; but the Bonzies look ,
upon them fomewhat obliquely. It muft indeed be owned that the
Romijh Clergy difcover a very great Zeal for the Propagation of their
Religion. The Ruffian Nation hath alfo built a Church at Peking^
and have converted and baptifed feveral confiderable Perfons to
the Greek Chriftian Religion. I don't think it at all neceiTary to
touch on the Races of the Monarchs which have hitherto reigned in
China, fince the carious part of the World may find an intire and
exa& Lift of them, in the Chinefe Chronology publiftied by ^hriftian
Menzelius, Councellor and Phyfitian of the Body to the King of
truffta j printed at Berlyn in 1696.
As for what relates to the Great Waff, which encompafles part of
the Empire erf <Cbi*af I (hallonly add in ftiort to what I have already
faid of it, that it is a prodigious Work, but not fo much to be valued
on account of any extraordinary Art fliewn hi the building of it,
as the furprifing Labour and Expence employed in the ere&ing of it
by the King who raifed it: For which the Chinefe Curfe him to this
Day, by reafon he thereby throughly ruined the Empire.   The Jefuit
Father Alexander informed me, that by the Emperor's Order he tra-
velled all along by this Wall, from the Weft where it begins,  to the
South-Eaft, as far as the Cerftfcan Sea, and found it  to be 500
^German   Miles long,  and  had it flood all on a level, it  would
certainly firetch to 400 Miles j   but it is carried over feveral high
Mountains, and hath four Entrances, vk. The Leatongian, Dawrian,
Lelinger and Tihetfchian Gates;  befides which it is fo  broad that
eight Horfemea may eafily ride abreaft upon it.
I don't think it proper to offer any more particulars concerning
China fince my residence there was not long, but defire the Reader
favourably to accept this little, and give me leave to refer him to
the farther Defcription annexed,  in which he will find feveral things
ey well worth Ms Cognizance*
 FINIS.