suspicion, were suffered to remain, especially because the latter,
although of the dimensions that shall presently be described, was not
capable of containing the same number as the former, which was of vast
extent.

This new city is of a form perfectly square, and twenty-four miles in
extent, each of its sides being neither more nor less than six miles.
It is enclosed with walls of earth that at the base are about ten
paces thick, but gradually diminish to the top, where the thickness is
not more than three paces. In all parts the battlements are white. The
whole plan of the city was regularly laid out by line, and the streets
in general are consequently so straight that when a person ascends the
wall over one of the gates, and looks right forward, he can see the
gate opposite to him on the other side of the city. In the public
streets there are, on each side, booths and shops of every
description. All the allotments of ground upon which the habitations
throughout the city were constructed are square and exactly on a line
with each other; each allotment being sufficiently spacious for
handsome buildings, with corresponding courts and gardens. One of
these was assigned to each head of a family; that is to say, such a
person of such a tribe had one square allotted to him, and so of the
rest. Afterward the property passed from hand to hand. In this manner
the whole interior of the city is disposed in squares, so as to
resemble a chess-board, and planned out with a degree of precision and
beauty impossible to describe.

The wall of the city has twelve gates, three on each side of the
square, and over each gate and compartment of the wall there is a
handsome building; so that on each side of the square there are five
such buildings, containing large rooms, in which are disposed the arms
of those who form the garrison of the city, every gate being guarded
by a thousand men. It is not to be understood that such a force is
stationed there in consequence of the apprehension of danger from any
hostile power whatever, but as a guard suitable to the honor and
dignity of the sovereign.

FOUNDING OF THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG

A.D. 1273

WILLIAM COXE

The house of Hapsburg---also called the house of
Austria--owes its origin and firm establishment to the most
celebrated of the Hapsburgs, a German princely family who
derived their name from Hapsburg castle, built about 1020,
on the banks of t