COREA. 
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DESCRIPTION OF COREAN HOUSE SHOWN IN PLATE LXIIL (K 6), 
The walls of the house are marked by thick lines in black ink, doors 
and windows thus — — / - , or thus , according as 
they are two-leaved or single; sliding partitions thus the 
upright timbers, resting on granite bases, which form with the roof 
timbers the essential and fundamental parts of the structure, are 
marked thus ; the tiled wall enclosing the compound 
thus orcri-cM t.Tsn a ; the places for lighting the fires under the 
floors are marked thus o O O . [N.B. These also answer the 
purpose of kitchen-ranges] ; the smoke outlets thus ; the 
portions covered with squares in white signify the existence of a 
wooden floor laid halfway between the roof and the ground ; these 
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chambers* called , are entered from the adjoining 
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room* and are used as store-cupboards. 
Note, that the house would be complete in itself, as a typical 
Corean dwelling, without the separate san-chycng sarang or summer- 
house erected on higher ground on the left. 
Note, also, that in the ordinary course of events the male members 
of the household reside and receive their guests in the Ah Sh ■ 
which has its own separate entrance from the road. In the ordinary 
course of events no one but the women and children enter the inner 
courtyard and rooms. 
There are deep eaves formed by the projection of the roof some 
2 or 3 feet beyond the walls on every side of the house. These are 
not marked in the plan. 
The upright timbers, resting on foundation stones marked thus 
, are almost uniformly placed at a distance of 8 feet 
from one another ; occasionally (as will be seen in the plan) this 
