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Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)

Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 92

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, in Normandy, in which strange diversity in our rural habitations. Godown to the deep cleft of Polperro in Corn-wall, which looks like a witches cauldron asthe wind flaws catch the eddying chimneyreek from the grey cottages that cling to thevalley sides, so that one can hardly distin-guish living… … A SOUTH DEVON COTTAGE the great peasant painter, Jean FrancoisMillet, was born. It might have been aLowland cottage in Scotland, the resemblanceis so striking. In comparing styles of building, it is, per-haps, wise to remember that like circum-stances and like materials may produce likeresults…

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