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court on the right hand of the outer one, exactly as we 

 find it in the New Inn, as shown in Plate V., fig. 3. This 

 secured greater privacy. 



An examination of pictures of several of the ancient 

 inns in London shows that they were also constructed on 

 the Roman plan of the double courtyard, and with the 

 entrance to the inner one not in line with that of the 

 outer. 



The elevation of some of these hostelries shows another 

 survival no less remarkable than that just pointed out in 

 the plan. Vitruvius advises that in building a house the 

 southern wing, or side, should be one storey lower than 

 the northern, in order to let the sun shine on the latter 

 during part of the day. That this system has been followed 

 from age to age is manifest from the examples of it still 

 left to us. A glance at Plate V., fig. 3, wall show the 

 Vitruvian architecture of the two storeys on the southern 

 side, and three on the northern, in the "New Inn"; 

 although the photograph from which the sketch is copied 

 has been taken so as to foreshorten the " third loft," 

 making it less striking than it really is. 



In smaller Greek houses, and those mansions in Turkey 

 and Bulgaria which are copied from the Greeks, the separa- 

 tion of the Harem apartments is made by placing them 

 on the upper floor : one large room on each floor taking 

 the place of the atrium ; the doors of the several chambers 

 and other apartments opening directly into it, the windows 

 of this central hall being all placed at one end of it ; pre- 

 ferably on the north, for shade. 



In Constantinople (Stamboul) one can distinguish the 

 houses of Turks from those of Armenians or other 

 nationalities by the windows being fitted with trellis-work, 

 or lattice, to screen the women from observation : and 

 here, again, we have a Roman and pre-Roman survival. 

 In Plate VIII., fig. 4, the lights over the gate of the temple 



