Servia and the Servians 1862 William Denton

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wattle, daubed over with mud and covered by a roof
of oak shingle, with an enormously disproportioned
chimney of the same material The roof almost always
projects on one side, so as to make a kind of open
apartment, similar to the loggia which is found in a
Turkish house, where, however, it is raised one story
from the ground. Under this shelving roof, but in the
open air, the members of the family assemble during
the summer. months, for their ·meals, surrounded by
tubs, • iron pots, and other wooden ware, which, equally
with human beings, require to be protected from the
. rays of the sun. Here and there, however, • throughout
this • village, neater and more convenient, though· less
picturesque cottages~ of a • type which, for want of a
more appropriate name, may be called European, have
been erected ·within the last few years, and others are
now being built.
It is a satisfactory evidence of the progress of the
nation in material prosperity, and also a proof of the
security which is now everywhere felt in Servia, that in
every -vinage through which I passed during my excursion
in this country, from the banks of the Danube on
the north to the Turkish frontier on the south, and
from Schabatz on the west to Milanowatz on the east,
I found houses which had but just been erected, and
almost. invariably others in the course of being built ;
and these were always houses roomier and of a more
comfortable and more durable kind than the cottages
which they have replaced, or amongst which they are
being constructed.
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