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SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 



passages, as shewn in the annexed ground-plan, each from ten to twelve 

 feet long and from four to five in height, the lowest being that next the 



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feet. 



The roofs of these passages are sometimes arched, but more generally 

 made flat by slabs laid on horizontally. In first digging the snow for build- 

 ing the hut, they take it principally from the part where the passages are to 

 be made, which purposely brings the floor of the latter considerably lower 

 than that of the hut, but in no part do they dig till the bare ground appears. 



The work just described completes the walls of a hut, if a single apart- 

 ment only be required ; but if, on account of relationship, or from any other 

 cause, several families are to reside under one roof, the passages are made 

 common to all, and the first apartment (in that case made smaller) forms a 

 kind of anti-chamber, from which you go through an arched door-way five 

 feet high into the inhabited apartments. When there are three of these, 

 which is generally the case, the whole building with its adjacent passages, 

 forms a tolerably regular cross. 



