r in sucha way as to be easily put together andtaken to pieces again, and thus permit-ting the ceiling to be raised or loweredat will. The whole is divided into seve-ral sections, which are now being paintedwith allegorical representations of thehours of day and night, more than ahundred figures… … The detail of the cornice of the atticis here shown distinctly. 1870.] A Chapter on Chinese Walls. 651 A CHAPTEE ON CHINESE WALLS. BY BISHOP KINGSLEY. ALL the cities of China are sur-rounded by high, strong walls,whose massive proportions a strangerhas no adequate idea of until he seesthem. The…
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