TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 



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no note of this matter during my visit there. The pan 

 tile has probably been introduced by the Dutch, or pos- 

 sibly by the English before the Dutch. Fig. 50 is re- 

 produced from a photograph showing the appearance of 



FIG. 50. 



Java houses after a shock of earthquake. In this is shown 

 the light structure of the roof supporting the tiles. 



GERMANY. 



Throughout Germany the flat tile is the common form. 

 When the lower border of this tile is slightly rounded it 



FIG. 51. 



is called, in certain portions of the country, "beaver-tail" 

 (fig. 51 A). In Berlin the lower border of the tile is 



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