3i 6 THE HABITATIONS OF MAN. take their horses with them in their capacious boats, and they carry off those which they meet with in the country they invade ; thus they readily form bands of formidable cavalry, falling unawares upon the hamlets they pillage, and then retiring and rejoining the main… … Plan of Scandinavian House.— Fig. 90. across a fosse, on whose escarpment is planted a quickset hedge. At B, is the great hall, whose roof is supported by a double row of posts. A wooden porch gives access to a hall c, in the middle of which a hearth is constructed. It is there that the
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