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Chingpeh mun : this is the principal gate of the north; before it, is a small semicircular space surrounded by a wall similar to that of the city; it forms the entrance for governmental officers and the bea- rers of public dispatches, when arriving from Peking by land; officers most commonly come to Canton in boats, in which case they usually make their entrance at one of the southern gates.
Ching si mun this is the only gate on the west which leads to the old city; for a Chinese city this gate is very broad and high, perhaps about fifteen feet in width and twelve in height.
Táping mun: this is the only entrance into the new city on the west; it is similar to the other western gate, but not so large.
Chuhlán mun: this is a small gate, and the first one you find after passing rouud the southwest corner of the city; it is the nearest gate to the foreign factories.
Yülán mun: this is near the Chuhlán gate, and like it seems de- signed chiefly for the conveyance of heavy merchandise into the city. Tsinghái mun : this perhaps was intended to be the water gate, as both its situation and name seem to indicate.
Wúsien mun is “the gate of the five genii," and has nothing re- markable except its name.
Yungtsing mun: there is nothing around this "gate of eternal purity" that can indicate such a name, but very much to suggest an opposite one; it is moreover the gate which leads to the field of blood-the place where criminals are publicly decapitated.
Siáunán mun: this "small southern gate" is the sixth and last on the south of the city.
Yungan mun this "gate of eternal rest" leads into the new city on the east, and corresponds in every respect with the Taiping gate on the west.
Chingtung mun this is the only gate on the east which leads into the old city, and it corresponds with the Chingsí mun on the west, to which it stands directly opposite.
Siáupch mun: this "little northern gate" forms a convenient en- rtance for bringing in water and provisions, and also building mate- rials, to supply the northern part of the city.
Having now gone round the city we pass to the inner gates. Kweitch mun. Reckoning from the west, this is the first gate in the wall which separates the old from the new city. Táinán mun,
"the great southern gate," is the second. Wanming muu is the third and
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