HOUSES AND CONVENIENCES. 31 
Ino this ease the house faces south, south-east (owing to 
convenience), with a slope on the roof of 40°, it is 78 feet 
long, Ly 13 feet wide, 2 feet high in front from the greund 
level, and 14 feet at the back. The foundation posts are 
Red Cedar, placed six feet apart and sunk frur feet in 
the ground, with the upper or exposed part, lressed off 
square, and eut at the top so as to form an even horizontal 
line; upon these the wall-plate is fixed, and made firm hy 
being let in 1 about an inch, the lower end of the rafters, 
whieh are six feet asunder. and the sask bars are — : 
