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JEHOL (" hot stream ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 310 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JEHOL (" hot stream ")

JEHOL (" hot stream ") , or CH'ENG-TE-FU, a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

CHINA

China, formerly the seat of the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor's summer See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, near I18° E. and 41° N., about 140 M. N.E. of See also:

PEKING, or PEKIN

Peking, with which it is connected by an excellent road. Pop. (estimate), io,000. It is a flourishing See also:

TOWN

town, and consists of one See also:

GREAT

great See also:

street, about 2 M. See also:

long, with smaller streets radiating in all directions. The See also:

PEOPLE

people are well-to-do and there are some See also:

FINE

fine shops. The palace, called Pi-shu-shan-chuang, or " See also:

mountain See also:

lodge for avoiding See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat," was built in 1703 on the See also:

plan of the palace of Yuen-ming-yuen near Peking. A substantial See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick See also:

wall 6 m. in See also:

CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit encloses several well-wooded heights and extensive gardens, rockeries, pavilions, temples, &c. Jehol was visited by See also:

Lord See also:

MACARTNEY, GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL (1737-1806)

Macartney on his celebrated See also:

MISSION

mission to the emperor K'ienlung in 1793; and it was to Jehol that the emperor Hienfeng retired when the allied armies of See also:

England and See also:

France occupied Peking in 186o. In the vicinity of Jehol are numerous Lama monasteries and temples, the most remarkable being Potala-su, built on the See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model of the palace of the See also:

GRAND

grand lama of See also:

TIBET, or THIBET

Tibet at Potala.

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