dried in the sun, or baked in an oven, areprincipally ^mployed. The following en-graving of a Chinese summer-house is anexcellent specimen—light and chaste, its con-struction is more simple than the generality ofsuch edifices in that country, and it seemsvery well adapted for erection in a garden.… … roof supported by pillars. The engravingIepresents part of that of St. Peters at Rome CoucHANT (in heraldry), is understood of alion or other beast when lying down but with
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