... receive and hold one another : they are also fastened together by wooden pins and uprights in the interior. The four corners are supported upon large stones or roots of trees, so that there is a current of air under the floor, to preserve the timber... Domestic scenes in Russia, letters - Side 35av Richard Lister Venables - 1839 - 348 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 sider
...other chronic disorders to which our own poor people are so grievously subject : — ' These houses are in general extremely warm and substantial ; they are...the centre of the house is a stove called a peech [pec/ika], which heats the cottage to an almost unbearable degree ; the warmth, however, which a Russian... | |
| 1841 - 618 sider
...so that there is a current of air under the floor, to preserve the timber from damp ; in the wiuter, earth is piled up all round to exclude the cold ;...the centre of the house is a stove called a peech [pechkd], which heats the cottage to an almost unbearable degree ; the warmth, however, which a Russian... | |
| 1851 - 748 sider
...air under the stones to preserve the timber from damp ; in the winter, earth is piled up all around to exclude the cold ; the interstices between the logs are stuffed with moss and clay, so that no rain can enter. The windows are very small, and are frequently cut out of the wooden wall after it... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 sider
...other chronic disorders to which our own poor people are so grievously subject : — ' These houses are in general extremely warm and substantial ; they are...the centre of the house is a stove called a peech [peclika], which heats the cottage to an almost unbearable degree ; the warmth, however, which a Russian... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1841 - 650 sider
...there is a current of air under the floor, to preserve the timber from damp; in the winter, earth ie piled up all round to exclude the cold ; the interstices...and clay, so that no air can enter. The windows are j rery small, and are frequently cut out of the wooden j wall after it is finished. In the centre of... | |
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