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 CHAP. III. T'AIS OR PAGODAS. to that of the minars of the Muhammadans, or the ordinary spires of Christian churches ; and, if all were like these, we should be forced to deny the Chinese the faculty of invention in architecture. In the north, however, the forms seem much 500. Pagoda in Summer Palace, Pekin. (From a Photograph by Beato.) more various. One in the Summer Palace -(Woodcut No. 500) is divided into three storeys, with additional projecting eaves under the balconies. Four of the sides of the octagon are longer than the other four, and altogether there is a play of light and shade, and a variety about the ornaments in this tower, which is extremely pleasing. It is much more like an Indian design than any other known in China, and with the