Guide for Emigrants, Containing Sketches of Illinois, Missouri, And the Adjacent Parts. By J.M. Peck.
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Around it are usually put up a meat or smoke house, a kitchen or cookhouse, a stable and corn crib, and per- haps a spring house to keep milk cool in sum- mer, all built in the same manner as the dwell- ing. Floors are usually made of timber split into slabs, called "^Jtuc^eons," with the upper surface hewn level. The next step in advance for a dwelling is a log house. This is made of logs hewn on two sides to an equal thick- ness, the ends notched together, apertures cut Guide for Emigrants. 1...27 throngh for doors and windows, a framed and shingled roof, and a brick or stone chimney. The chimney of the cabin is invariably built of sticks of wood, the largest at the bottom, and the smallest at th« top, and laid up with a supply of mud or clay mortar. The interstices between tlie logs of both the cabin and log house are chinked with strips of wood, and daubed with the same species of mortar, both outside and in, unless the convenience of lime is added. It is f>€rfectly obvious that this mode of bnild- ing sweeps off vast quantities of timber, that by a more judicious and economical plan, would be saved for other purposes.
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