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VOLi. XXVITT. No. 10. I 
WHOLE No. 1SJ41. I 
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on, in a semi-hexagon or semi-octagon shupo, 
so that when laid upon the roof these Jigures 
will be regularly produced. 
The English cottage style, will admit of 
great irregularity and picturesqueness of 
outline, and is productive of beautiful effects 
when the coin position forms a large group of 
building. In the present example wo have 
only been able to show one of the nlmolest of 
1TOOP 
BED ROOM 10X17 
CLOSET 
BED flOOM 
• VCSTISULC • 
J quired larger than the main buildiug. 
10 Accoss would bo had to it by steps going 
down under the stone platform of the 
stoop ou which the hall, back, door and 
the kitchen door open, and by stairs de¬ 
scending under the ascending staircase 
In the hall. 
The elevation of this cottage is in the En¬ 
glish cottago style, so generally admired for 
the picturcsquenes* evinced in its tall gables 
ornamented by handsome verge boards and 
linials, its neat or fanciful chimney-tops, its 
latticed windows, and other striking feutures, 
showing how the genius of pointed or Uothic 
architecture may be chastened or molded In¬ 
to forms for domestic habitations. The steep 
roofs are highly suitable for a cold country 
liable to heavy snows. A very pleasing 
mode of covering roofs of this kind is shown 
in the elevation, and the effect Ls produced 
by procuring the shingles of equal size and 
cutting the lower ends, before laying them 
