She quotes the description by the missionary father Matteo Ripa of the Imperial Park as "Bare, hump-backed hills, sparsely clad with a few dejected and stunted trees" to tell us that it "looked nothing like the English home counties"!
「那些禿頭駝背的山丘，稀疏地覆上幾棵發育不全的頹樹，…」一作者指出，馬國賢神父筆下的避暑山莊，「顯然與英國鄉間景緻，看起來沒有半點相似之處！」