4th Feb. On account of the large influx of students at the examinations in Peking ai museum in that city would be of great advantage. Provision for food and lodging on these occasions has to be made for 20,000 or 30,000 strangers for about a month. This shews the capacity of Peking for entertaining. So also the arrival and departure of high officers, civil and military, causes the entrance and exit of thousands of persons every year. This is so much the more the case because of the great roads leading from the metropolis into Manchuria, Corea, Mongolia, Russia and the Turkish province. The Government appointments of officials to the provinces of China. proper and correspondence with them involves an enormous amount.of travelling to and from Peking. The constant influx of strangers thus caused would render an attractive museum
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