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Yaud, the barn and stables were annexed to the 
bouse, and in many of them, tho’ large and con-^ 
venient, there was no other chimney than a scuttle 
of boards above the roof, through which the smoke 
finds its way as in our wigwams. In the villages^ 
however^ chimneys were generally used. 
I SHALL annex the plan of a good house, that of 
the post-master’s which I sketched upon Mount Ju¬ 
ra, which resembles most of those I saw in the Pays 
de Valid. I have also observed in Normandy a 
mode of building that might be usefully practised 
when building stone is scarce, and brick dear.:—= 
The corners are run up with brick in the usual 
mode. But above and below the windows, and in 
ether parts of the wall, which sustain the least pres¬ 
sure, a thill ivall is built with small fiat stones, over 
which again is a course or two of brick, on which 
the window frame is set, so that the wall is pannel- 
led with brick and stone ; when finished the stone is 
covered with mortar and sometimes painted ; as the 
brick projects over the stone and plaistenit never peels 
or comes off, and thus forms a much handsomer front 
than the brick alone would do, while by this means 
one third of the brick are savedo But what princi-. 
pally leads me to touch upon the subject of farm 
houses, is to give you an account of the houses in 
the neighborhood of Lyons, and through a very ex-, 
tensive country where they have no good building 
stone ; since I think it will afford a very useful 
hint to farmers who are in similar circumstances. 
