ABSTRACT
The principal feature of this imperial landscape parkis three large lakes, lying north and west of the inclosed Forbidden City. This park would hardly fit the Western conception of a garden for it covers scores of acres in which are not only these lakes, their islands, a hill of almost natural size, but roads, bridges, pavilions, minor palaces, and temples. All of this has been created by man, however, for there is no rising ground, hardly any water, on the flat dry plain around Peking. But some miles away a bountiful spring, now called the Jade Fountain, bubbles up in an imperial hunt~ ing preserve. Its waters were conducted to the city, and the chain of three lakes dug. The excavated material was piled into two hills.
