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within. The roof is covered with fods
laid over rafters, or fometimes over
ribs o f whales, which is both more
durable and more expenlive than
wood. The timber*work reits on
many beams laid length-ways. The
walls are about three yards high,
and the entrance fomewhat lower.
The plan o f one o f thefe houfes is here
annexed, to give a better idea o f it.
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(a) is the door or entrance o f the
long lo b b y ; (bbb) is about fix feet
broad, and admits the light through
fome holes in the roof, upon which
a hoop, with a ildn ilretched over it,
is laid. At the end o f the lobby is
a room (c) where the women do their
work, and where the mailer o f the
houfe generally ileeps with his wife.
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The walls o f this room are wainfcotted
; it has a ceiling and floor,
fometimes even fmall glafs windows,
but no fire-place. On both iides o f
this long lobby are four rooms, two on
each fide, o f which (d) is the kitchen,
(e) the room made ufe o f to eat in, (f)
the dairy, and (g) the fervants room :
theie rooms have neither ceilings not*
floors, and the walls are ieldom or
never lined. The windows are made
o f the chorion fiknarbelguf and amnios
o f iheep {yatzbelgur) or the membranes
which furround the womb o f
the ewe. Theie are ilretched over a
hoop, and laid over an opening in
the roof, upon which a wooden iliut-
ter is let down, i f the weather be
ilormy. They have not even a chimney
in the kitchens, but only lay their
fuel on the earth between three ilones,
and the finoke iiTues from a fquare
hole in the roof. Befides this houfe,
they have a booth or ihed to keep
their fiili in [Jk wmma) fometimes another
for their cloaths, &c, and not far oif
the flable for their cattle. In the
poor fort o f houfes, they ufe the in-
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