Editorial note
XI. The Palace of Green Porcelain
It may be, of course, that the floor did not slope, but that the museum was built into the side of a hill.—ED.
…a came very close to my side. So suddenly that she startled me. Had it not been for her I do not think I should have noticed that the floor of the gallery sloped at all. note The end I had come in at was quite above ground, and was lit by rare slit-like windows. As you went down the length, the ground came up against these windows, until at last there was a pit like the ‘area‘ of a London house before each, and only a narrow l…
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