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BOOK I. 



top ; thus making the external appearance of the cowhouse 

 and the lodging apartments exactly alike. Hence a house of 

 this kind presents a chimney at each end, and two doors placed 

 together in the middle. One of these doors is the entrance of 

 the cottager, the other that of his cow. I should not have 

 thought this circumstance worthy of notice, were it not that 

 some respectable improvers near Edinburgh are building a 

 number of stiff unconnected cottages of this kind for their la- 

 bourers, under the name of ornamental cottages. It. must be 

 evident to every one, that whatever their form may be, they 

 can never be so clear, fresh, and wholesome, as if the cow-house 

 was made an appendage, with its door either in the end, or at 

 some distance from the door to the living apartments of the 

 peasant. — The Scots cottage, when increased in height so as to 

 contain two stories, has still more formality than the low kind, 

 from being of greater magnitude. 



Erom these two styles have originated all the varieties in their 

 general construction and distribution. In general, we find the 

 two styles pretty distinct ; but in countries which contain ma- 

 terials suitable for both styles, as in the borders of Wales and 

 the north of England, or where the people from one county have 

 migrated to another, we find them mixed or blended in vari- 

 ous degrees. This is the case in Northumberland, Lancashire, 

 and some parts of Stirlingshire, as at Carron. 



