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CHINESE ARCH 1TECTU K E.
Book IX.
Occasionally, however, the Chinese attempted something more
monumental, but without much success. Where glass is not available
of sufficient size and in sufficient quantities to glaze the windows, there
is a difficulty in so arranging them that the room shall not be utterly
dark when the shutters are closed, and that the rain shall not pene-
trate when thej' are open. In wooden construction these difficulties
are much more easily avoided ; deep projecting eaves, and light screens,
open at the top, obviate most of them : at least, so the Chinese always
thought, and they have consequently so little practice, that when they
tried solid architecture in a palace they could only produce such a
pavilion as that figured in Woodcut No. 392, which, though charac-
CHINESE ARCH 1TECTU K E.
Book IX.
Occasionally, however, the Chinese attempted something more
monumental, but without much success. Where glass is not available
of sufficient size and in sufficient quantities to glaze the windows, there
is a difficulty in so arranging them that the room shall not be utterly
dark when the shutters are closed, and that the rain shall not pene-
trate when thej' are open. In wooden construction these difficulties
are much more easily avoided ; deep projecting eaves, and light screens,
open at the top, obviate most of them : at least, so the Chinese always
thought, and they have consequently so little practice, that when they
tried solid architecture in a palace they could only produce such a
pavilion as that figured in Woodcut No. 392, which, though charac-