TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 



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At the Antiquarian Museum at Zurich were preserved 

 a few old flat tiles (fig. 72). These far exceeded the di- 

 mensions of the other flat tiles described, one specimen 

 measuring 46.8 centimetres in length and 17.2 centimetres 

 in breadth. The nib was large and broad, and the lower 

 end of the tile was roundly pointed. Another specimen 

 of the same length, and having a breadth of 23.5 centi- 

 metres, was pointed, the pointed end being cutoff square. 



The lower exposed portion was coated with salt glaze ; 

 the nib was small and recurved. These tiles were about 

 350 years old. 



FIG. 72. 



At Basle the buildings were somewhat mongrel in their 

 appearance, partially losing their Swiss character without 

 assuming their German character. The tiles were flat with 

 rounded ends. On the old cathedral in this town the tiles 

 were glazed green, red and white and in the rebuilding of 

 certain portions of the cathedral new flat tiles, glazed the 

 same colors, were being used, the bright glaze of even the 

 old tiles forming a startling and disagreeable contrast to 

 the time-stained stone and other material of the structure. 

 Some interesting ridge-tiles with green and brown glazes 



