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four
the same size as the other, built of (57)
[illegible]
partly excavated in the sloping bank
and the walls completed and the roof
built of stones covered over with
turf. The entrance passage was
so low that I had to crouch nearly
double to traverse it, avoiding with
but partial success the dog offal
covering the ground. The single
room contained merely the bed
platform as furniture, and was
heated by the open cooking-fire in
the middle of the grossed earthen
or stone floor and was lighted by
means of an immovable window
containing formed of six little panes
of glass in the western wall. The
smoke from the fire found its way
out as best it might through a