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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 30

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nd the ridge-pole lashed to vertical, forked poles,with intermediate poles covered with sods^ (figure 2). The Cratchets whichSmith alludes to, otherwise crotchets, were the posts with a forked top—char-acteristic elements of primitive house construction in England.- Another very rudimentary type is… … Figure 2. Bark-peclers hut, High Furness From Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian Society, vol. l6 (1901) Courtesy of W. G. Collingwood and H. S. Cowper casting the Earth aloft upon Timber; they make a smoaky fire against the Earthat its highest side . . . yet in these poor…

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