Coral-stone and Palm, the Homes of Bermuda 
A QUARRY CARPENTER 
BERMUDA 
plan of each story is necessarily like that 
beneath; a large room may cover two smal¬ 
ler ones, hut never the reverse, and there 
are few closets and storerooms. 
When the height of a story is reached, 
the floor beams 
—of amazing 
1 ightness—are 
laid upon the 
walls. Ordinary 
rooms are 
floored upon 
2" x 6" scant¬ 
lings,generously 
“bridged”; quite 
large rooms 
upon 2" x 8” 
joists. Only in 
houses of con¬ 
siderable preten¬ 
sions are the 
floors firm to 
the tread; but the tremor of the slighter 
houses, though unpleasant to Northern 
visitors, does not annoy those accustomed 
to it. The most remarkable economies of 
framing, however, are accomplished in the 
roofs. These are 
pitched at an 
angle seldom 
more than 25 0 , 
and are raftered 
with 2 " x 4 ", 
2" x 5" or rarely, 
even in the best 
houses, 2" x 6" 
scantlings. The 
attic space forms 
a protection 
from heat to the 
rooms below; 
it cannot be 
divided into low 
chambers with 
A BERMUDAN ROADSIDE 
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