Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 69
lashed togetherat the center,.protected by an outside coatof peat, sods of turf or rushes. We canlearn something of the nature of the abodesof the living by examining the chambers ofthe dead lieolithic folk, as in most cases thelatter were a copy of the former. The Wad-don Chambers, Kits Coty… … The Evolution of the Cottage pile-dwelling, constructed on piles in lakesor rivers, in order to secure the inhabitantsfrom the sudden attack of their enemies orthe ravages of beasts of prey.- Switzerlandis famous for its lake dwellings, and thesettlements at Morges, on the Lake ofGeneva; at Sutz,…
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