...meeting at the top, ridge-fashion, but so order'd that there is neither sightliness nor strength ; and it does not cost much more time to erect such a cottage than to pull it down. They cover these houses with turff of an inch thick, and in the shape of larger tiles, which they fasten...

...houses, and what are seen in the villages, are low and feeble." He thus continues — " Their walls are made of a few stones jumbled together without mortar to cement 'em : on which they set up pieces of wood meeting at the top, ridge-fashion, but so order'd that there...

...meeting at the top, ridge fashion, but so ordered that there is neither sightliness nor strength; and it does not cost much more time to erect such a cottage than to pull it down. They cover these houses with turf an inch thick, and in the shape of larger tiles which they fashion...

...meeting at the top, ridge fashion, but so ordered that there is neither sightliness nor strength ; and it does not cost much more time to erect such a cottage than to pull it down. They cover these houses with turf an inch thick, and in the shape of larger tiles which they fashion...

...meeting at the top, ridge-fashion, but so ordered that there is neither sightliness nor strength; and it does not cost much more time to erect such a cottage than to pull it down. They cover these houses with turfs of an inch thick, and in the shape of larger tiles, which they fasten...

...enough, for we require only three days to do so." A traveler in 1702 reported that the houses were "low and feeble, their walls made of a few stones...time to erect such a cottage than to pull it down." ( Notestein, The Scot in History, p. 72 ) i Testimony from three centuries shows the persistence of...