| 1857 - 830 lehte
...of these buildings is the absence of any direct communication with the outside on the ground floor. The only means of entrance is through a trap-door...you ascend, from story to story, by means of ladders upon the outside, which are drawn up at night, and the population sleep secure from attack from without.... | |
| William Watts Hart Davis - 1857 - 446 lehte
...of these buildings is the absence of any direct communication with the outside on the ground floor. The only means of entrance is through a trap-door...you ascend, from story to story, by means of ladders upon the outside, which are drawn up at night, and the population sleep secure from attack from without.... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1875 - 832 lehte
...windows in the sides, while those in the interior of the building are dark, and are principally used as store-rooms .... The only means of entrance is...you ascend, from story to story, by means of ladders upon the outside, which are drawn up at night." The same writer gives the following cut of Taos.64... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1875 - 832 lehte
...windows in the sides, while those in the interior of the building are dark, and are principally used as store-rooms .... The only means of entrance is...you ascend, from story to story, by means of ladders upon the outside, which are drawn up at night." The same writer gives the following cut of Taos.64... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1877 - 44 lehte
...windows in the sides, while those in the interior of the building are dark, and arc principally used as storerooms. * * * The only means of entrance is through a trap-door in the roof, aud you ascend from story to story by means of ladders on the outside, which are drawn up at night.... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1878 - 532 lehte
...only means of entrance is through a trap-door in the roof, and you ascend from story to story by mtans of ladders on the outside, which are drawn up at night....ancient style of buildings, principally in substituting door- ways in the walls of their houses for those in the roof. Their modern buildings are rarely over... | |
| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1878 - 606 lehte
...windows in the sides, while those in the interior of the building are dark, and are principally used as store-rooms. * * * The only means of entrance is...through a trapdoor in the roof, and you ascend from storey to storey by means of ladders on the outside, which are drawn up at night. Their contact with... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1883 - 834 lehte
...windows in the sides, while those in the interior of the building are dark, and are principally used as store-rooms .... The only means of entrance is...you ascend, from story to story, by means of ladders upon the outside, which are drawn up at night." The same writer gives the following cut of Taos.54... | |
| Helen Haines - 1891 - 668 lehte
...of these buildings is the absence of any direct communication with the outside on the ground floor. The only means of entrance is through a trap-door in the roof, and you ascend from story to story by way of ladders upon the outside, which are drawn up at night, the population thus sleeping secure from... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902 - 832 lehte
...windows in the sides, while those in the interior of the building are dark, and are principally used as storerooms .... The only means of entrance is through...you ascend, from story to story, by means of ladders upon the outside, which are drawn up at night." The same writer gives the following cut of Taos.64... | |
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