ended from wall to wall, aud are generally broadand thin; these floors are called single-jointed, ex-epting large timbers, called beams; all the cross pieces supporting the boards of a floor are calledjoists; and if cross pieces are fixed to the beamsunderneath, to sustain the lath and plaster,… … pipe or tube placed in the middle of a basin, andfalling again into the basin below. Japanese Houses. According to the state-ment of a late traveller, these houses are the anti-podes of those of the ancient Egyptians, and theinhabitants of the Hauran, While the latter,always aiming at massiveness,…
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