London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 115
nothing is pretty.The roof is rather flat, andcovered with heavy fragmentsof the stone of which the wallsare built, originally very loose;but generally cemented byaccumulated soil, and boundtogether by houseleek, moss,and stonecrop: brilliant in co- … lour, and singular in abun- dance. The form of the larger cottages, being frequently that of across, would hurt the eye by the sharp angles of the roof, wereit not for the cushion-like vegetation with which they arerounded and concealed. Varieties of the fern sometimes relievethe massy forms of the…
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