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execed 9er 10. In Canton, over

whole city,

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there is not,

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the

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on an

average, a complete upper storey.

Skoond and third storeys

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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

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above * I lamented the reckless want

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