TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 



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CHINA. 



China exceeds all other countries in the world in the skill 

 shown in the use of the roofing-tile. Moreover, China, 

 with Korea and Japan, has treated the tile in an artistic 



way as no other 

 countries have done, 

 except ancient 

 Greece and Home. 

 The normal tile is 

 universally seen as 

 a roof-covering from Pekin through Cochin China and 

 Anam to the Malay peninsula. 



The tiles are utilized in a variety of ways as a decorative 

 feature for the roof. Massive ridges are made of them ; 

 even gateways of com- 

 mon country houses 

 will have a heavy 

 ridge of tiles. Around 

 Shanghai, these ridges 

 are formed by broad, 

 flat tiles placed on 

 end and packed close 

 together like books on 

 a shelf. At the ends of 

 the ridge they are 

 held up by what ap- 

 pears to be an upturn- 

 ed sheet of metal. In 

 the native city of 

 Shanghai, a small, 

 square, slightly- 

 curved tile is used the 

 same answering for I 



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tegula and imbrex. The eaves tile has a flange below ; in 

 some cases the under course of eaves tile is simple (fig. 9) 



