The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 109
than houses. The principal feature of these was a greathall where a king or noble and his retainers celebrated a victory with muchfeasting and drinking, or retired to nurse the wounds of a defeat. How to keep warm in one of those great, lofty, fiag-paved halls wouldpresent a problem at any stage of… … Kitchen of Clastonbiiry Abkcy could warm one side at a time while awake, and their toes when they wentto bed on the flags. The smoke from the fire curled over their heads andfound its way out through a hole in the room called a louvre. The cooking was done about this fire, and after the feast the…
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