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about a foot and a-half wide, and six 

 inches to a foot thick, which would, of 

 course, make the thickness of the igloo 

 itself. A row of these is laid on the 

 ground, the long edge down, in the shape 

 of a circle, and this is continued around, 

 just as on your egg-shell, until the snow 

 house is built, the last snow-block, of 

 course, being then perfectly horizontal. 

 They make most of the igloos just so high 

 that, when standing on the floor in front 

 of the bed, their heads will not be bump- 

 ing against the roof, although it is hard 

 to tell just where the house-walls stop 

 and the roof commences. When they 

 build their snow houses to live in a long 

 time, however, they make them higher 

 and flatter in the roof than when they are 

 to be used for one or two nights only ; 

 for it must be remembered that their 



