POSITION AND PLAN 19 
foot plot, which will leave the balance of the 
land in the most advantageous shape. One is 
the very narrow, long house extending far 
back; the other is the wide and shallow house 
that covers practically the entire breadth of 
the land. Of these two the latter is prefer- 
able in one way, as it leaves a fairly good 
sized rectangle intact between itself and the 
rear boundary. But here the exposure must 
enter into the calculations — for the long side 
of a dwelling ought always to meet the sun 
and the prevailing summer breeze. In the 
street running east and west the broad, shal- 
low house will do this, but on north and south 
streets the long and narrow form, which leaves 
the open space at one side, must be adopted 
in order to secure the necessary southern ex- 
posure. 
I assume that southern exposure is uni- 
versally necessary to secure breeze as well as 
sun, inasmuch as it is so very generally so. 
There are instances, of course, where this is 
not the case, but they are usually owing to 
purely local conditions, topographical or other- 
wise, and are too uncommon to be reckoned 
with here. Suffice to say that where such local 
difference exists, it is only necessary to know 
from which direction the prevailing summer 
