6
execed 9er 10. In Canton, over
whole city,
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there is not,
#!
the
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on an
average, a complete upper storey.
Skoond and third storeys
#
#
are
unknown, while they may
there
be said
"to be the rule in "BongKong. In
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China also there is in the middle
of each house a square space open to the sky (clien-Ising, or "Heavenly
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#
well"), with a sunken
serves
floor
which
many
for ventilation and ma
other purposes. In some cases, this
court is covered in, but I have ~
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generally observed that there is_
abundant
·•XN. 41 of 1883.
abundant provision for, ventilation.
on the north side
the house especially
of the
Cevery classical scholar
and traveller must be struck by the resemblance between the arrangements
of the Chinese houses at Canton and
the old Roman houses at _
those
of
Pompeii . "The "Heavenly well described above corresponds, of course, exactly to
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the impluvium of the Romans; while each court in a Chinese house of the better sort recalls the Roman "atrium". my despatch referred to
5.
above * I lamented the reckless want
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