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ON THE OLDER FORMS OF 



while in other cases both tegula and imbrex bordering the 

 eaves have flanges. In the Shanghai house the wall pro- 

 jects slightly above the eaves, and upon this the tiles are 

 placed on end as abov^ described. Outside this is a cor- 

 nice of tiles terminating in eaves tiles (tig. 10). On the 

 ridge the tiles, placed on end like books, incline from the 

 middle to both ends of the ridge. They do not appear to 

 be Httnched in any way. Farther south, at Hong Kong 



and Canton, the eaves tiles 

 are usually simple. At Hong 

 Kong the imbrex is narrow 

 and arch-shape (fig. 11), the 

 eaves having two layers of tegulse without margin, and 

 the imbrex open. The ordinary Pekin tile has a nearly 

 square tegula, 22 centimetres wide, slightly bent and quite 

 thin. In the eaves tiles, both in imbrex and tegula, the 

 disk and margin are made separately in a mould, and after- 

 wards attached to the tile proper. These portions have 

 flowers and other decorations in relief. The tile portion is 



FIG. n. 



FIG. 12. 



evidently made by rolling the clay into a thin sheet and 

 then cutting out pieces of proper dimensions for the im- 

 brex and tegula, and bending them over forms of the re- 

 quired shape. Fig. 12 represents specimens from Pekin 



