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ON THE OLDER FOEMS OF 



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

 end, in Nuremberg it is pointed (fig. 53). Occasionally 

 the tiles are laid in a double layer as shown in fig. 54. 



The flat tile not 

 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 approaches Belgium 

 and Holland, the home of the pan 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. The 

 pan tile is also occasionally seen far- 

 ther south. At Freiburg it is known 

 by the name of "Jumping hound," 

 from its fancied resemblance, at the 

 eaves, to the movements of jumping hounds. In the 

 country around Bremen and Hamburg the roofs are often 



FIG. 53. 



FIG. 54. 



thatched, but 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 the^e pan-tiled 



