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presented them to us. After making the drawings from which 

 our figures are engraved, we sent them to Mr. Austin, the arti- 

 ficial stone manufacturer in the ISew Road ; and he has succeeded 

 in producing fac-similes of them in his hard and durable com- 

 position. 



In China, Mr. Reeves informs us, these tiles are inserted in 

 the low walls that separate the courts and gardens of dwelling- 

 houses, on the copings of which walls are placed pots of flowers. 

 They are also used in forming ornamental openings in walls of 

 a higher description ; in which case sides and corners are added, 

 for the sake of uniformity. In either case these tiles are placed 

 double, on edge, and at such a distance from each other as to 

 allow the space between to be covered with a brick placed length- 

 wise ; the walls constructed above the ornamented panel being 

 always terminated by a coping, sufficiently broad to receive pots 

 of flowers or dwarf trees. 



In Britain these tiles may be applied to a variety of purposes, 

 more especially when made in the perfectly accurate manner, and 

 of the hard and durable material, of which they are manufactured 



