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much as 140 cm broad, the measurements being taken along 

 the middle line of the side-platforms (EK on fig. 8). The 

 whole breadth of the house was thus 39 m. The principal 

 platform in this house was as much as 205 cm long (from e 

 to /") and had in front a breadth of 210 cm; its height above 

 the floor was 30 — 35 cm in front (at e in fig. 9). The principal 

 platform always slopes evenly down towards the back and the 

 height of the side-platforms is normally the same as that of 

 the main platform in front. Both the main and the side-plat- 

 forms are formed of flat stones, which rest on stones set up 

 on end. In the back part of the main platform, however, 

 the stones lie directly on the ground. 



Among the piled-up stones of the house-walls we not 

 rarely find, forming part and parcel of the walls, the vertebrae 

 and smaller bones of the large, now extinct or rare whales. 

 The skulls of walrus are also used for this purpose. Some of 

 the stones are so large that one can hardly understand, how 

 it was possible to move them. Pieces of pine or bone are 

 fixed in among the stones of the roof and between these strings 

 are hung, on which small articles of clothing and other objects 

 can be suspended. 



In the front part of the roof there is a small and narrow 

 opening (at h) which can be closed above by a clod of grass ; 

 this is called "nose" of the house by the Eskimos, and in the 

 still winter-frost the hot air can be seen streaming out like 

 white steam. At one place in Umanark two houses had been 

 built together, so that they had a common wall but were other- 

 wise quite like two houses. On fig. 9 we can also see the top- 

 stone g between the two central projecting stones; this helps 

 to supports the flag-stones of the roof. Over these lies the 

 layer of earth and grass-clods o, and this is again covered by 

 a layer of stones (p). 



The height of the house internally is not very considerable. 

 I have measured one house (the last of the two above-men- 



