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The building materials are of various kinds. The city walls are built in brick, and the bridges in stone, with marble casing and balustrades. The raised platforms for altars, as well as some temples, and generally the imperial halls, are also built in marble. All other Chinese constructions are in timber. The roofs are covered with glazed tiles, yellow in imperial structures, and green, blue, or purple for others. The ridge and hip rolls, with the dragons and fishes which surmount their roofs, are all in glazed terra-cotta.'¹