Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 29
having low Letter to the Countess of Lincoln, reprinted in P. Forces Tracts, vol. 2 (1838), IV, p. 19. For otherallusions to early English huts as wigwams see Memoirs of Captain Roger Clap in A. Youngs Chron-icles ... of Massachusetts (1846), p. 351; J. Winthrops History of New England (1825 ed.),… … Figure I. Charcoal burners hut South Yorkshire Courtesy of C. F. Innocent THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY walls of branches and earth, and the ridge-pole lashed to vertical, forked poles,with intermediate poles covered with sods^ (figure 2). The Cratchets whichSmith alludes to, otherwise crotchets, were…
