. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings ... THE WIGWAM AND THE TENT. S tlie groves were Gods first tem«pies, so, undoubtedly, were theythe earliest dwellings of man. The( foliage of the trees affordedprotection against tlie too fervidays of the noonday sun, and theirlollow trunks, and the caves amongthe rocks which they overhung,served as a shelter from the fury ofthe storm. By twining togetherthe tops of saplings growing neareach other, and filling in the spa-ces between them with branchesbroken from other trees, arbors or bough-hou
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings ... THE WIGWAM AND THE TENT. S tlie groves were Gods first tem«pies, so, undoubtedly, were theythe earliest dwellings of man. The( foliage of the trees affordedprotection against tlie too fervidays of the noonday sun, and theirlollow trunks, and the caves amongthe rocks which they overhung,served as a shelter from the fury ofthe storm. By twining togetherthe tops of saplings growing neareach other, and filling in the spa-ces between them with branchesbroken from other trees, arbors or bough-houses were readilyconstructed. These, m the Eden-like climates of the Ea.^t,where the race is supposed to have originated, probably sat-isfied the Avants of the men of tlie first ages. At a later day, and in a genial climate, dwellings wereconstructed by cutting down trees and placing them, in a circu-lar form, with their tops leaning against eacli otlier and fasten-ing them together, branches being interwoven and the inter-utices filled with clay. Of this descri[)tion is the wigwam of 1*. 10 The House. the North American savage. In other cases a frame-work ofpoles was covered with strips of bark or skins of animals. Thedome-like mud huts of some of the African tribes, with holestwo or three feet high for d^ors, through which one must enteron all-fours, advance in point of architecture one step of the necessities of a pastoral life grew the invention oftenti, which were at first made of the skins of animals and af-terward of felt and various kinds of cloth. On each green andchosen spot these portable habitations could be spread in amoment, and as readily removed. Even at the present day, The Arab band, Across the sand,Still bear their dwellings light, And neath the skies Their tents arise,Like spirits of the night II.—THE LOG CABIN. The inventor of the rectangular log-house should have beenimmortalized; but, alas! he is unknown, and the date of the
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