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 FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE. 565 The fabric does not rest on the humid ground, which would soon damage its sides, but is raised on large stones. Perhaps the most curious method for connecting timber is that which appears in Fig. 258, where the planks that form the walls of the structure are made to cross at the sides within a foot of their heads, and the result is a very quaint aspect. This mode of piecing wood together is not in the habits of the Turk or Greek joiner, whether of the towns or plains ; and we find no trace of it in their carpentry work. 1 It is proper to Lycia, or, to speak correctly, to moun- tain regions where wood is ... . . FIG. 258. Hut at Kurje Keui. PETEKSEN, plentiful ; and is a contrivance Keisen, tom. L Fig. 58. which makes iron bolts and nails superfluous. We noticed it in the hilly tract of Olympus, FIG. 259. Granary at Villards de Thones. Drawn by Marie Perrot. in Bithynia. 2 It is still used in the construction of domestic dwellings and barns, whether in Lycia or the upper valleys of Savoy. Look at the sketch on p. 365, made by M. Niemann (Fig. 258), representing a guard-room which stands at the crossing 1 BENNDORF, Reisen, tom. i. p. 100. 2 Hist, of Art, tom. v. p. 73.