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ON THE OLDER FORMS OF 



usually rouudcd (fig'. 52), in Weimar it is square at the 

 end, in Nm-emberg it is pointed (fig. 53). Occasionally 

 the tiles are laid in a donl)le layer as shown in fig. 54. 



The flat tile not 

 I r^:^ only extends 



throughout Ger- 

 many but runs 

 south to Swit- 

 zerland, west 

 Fig. 5-2. through France, 



at least through the central and northern portions, and 

 •southeast through Austria to Hungary and Poland, and, 

 probably, northeast to Russia. As one ap[)ioaches Belginni 

 and Holland, the home ot the piui tile, this tile frequently 

 takes the place of the flat tile, as 

 seen at Dusseldorf, Bonn, Cologne, 

 Bremen and Hamburg. This tile is 

 commonly red or glazed black. Tlie 

 pan tile is also occasionally seen far- 

 ther south. At Freiburg it is know 

 by the name of "Jumping hound," 

 from its fancied reseml)lance, at the fig. 53. 



eaves, to the movements of jumping hounds. In the 

 country around Bremen and Hamburg the roofs are often 



Fig. .54. 

 thatched, l)ut in these cases a square area about the chim- 

 ney — which looks odd thrust up through a thatched roof 

 — is covered with pan tiles. In many of these pan-tiled 



