All the houses of the town have an
old, dingy appearance externally :
each joins the next one to it (unless
a street intervenes) and one is about
a pattern cf the other, except in
height. Occasionally there are two
stories in a building. A street, there
fore, presents the aspect of an alley
running between two stone walls.
The windows never have glass in
them (or very rarely), but shutters
instead, wbich swing open, and are
heavily constructed , their panel al
so open and shut then they are pro
tected by wooden or iron bars pro
jecting some distance. The women
collect in the w indows, whose sills
afford convenient sitting places, and
t,,c)' 'oo1; as, if
tliev were in caries.
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lowers are anunucu m pots, iinu
tioors lean nuo stole-rooms, me
kitchen, and hack into the .stable-
yard. Sometimes u row of columns
extend on tlueo sides, forming a cool
piazza.
There is nothing cheerful in their
style of architecture. You would
suppose from it that they were the
gravest people in the world. Tho
rooms are of the size of the interior
of the house, long in proportion to
their width, and are as high as the
flat roof which form the tops ofthein,
showing tho large timbers running
across. The lower part of tho ceil
ings are ornamented with various
tawdry designs, in the worst possi
ble taste, and t' e floors are either of
brick or hard mortar. The wood
work of tho doors, &c. have often
I elaborate carvings, but in a very
rough state of finish. To everything
mat opens and shuts there is a lock.
