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The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. (1866)

Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877 · New York, G.E. & F.W. Woodward · leaf 11

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, which were at first made of the skins of animals and af-terward of felt and various kinds of cloth. On each green andchosen spot these portable habitations could be spread in amoment, and as readily removed. Even at the present day, The Arab band, Across the sand,Still bear their dwellings light,… … Kig. l.-TiiK Anciknt Loa Cabin. first dwelling of this kind is nowliere recorded. Howeverlong jigo that event may have occurred, tl-e foundations of the Okigin and Meaning. 11 art of domestic architecture were then securely established.The first oblong house, covered by a sloping roof, whether…

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