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Keystone View Co., Inc., of N. Y. The Chinese came very near inventing the skyscraper when they built the first pagoda of this sort. One sees a great many of them in China. They have either six or eight sides, and are always an odd number of stories in height, up to thirteen. Often, as here, they have graceful veranda roofs. Pagodas are religious structures, and in form resemble somewhat the Christian spire and the Mohammedan minaret.

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