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 48 A History of Art in Sardinia and Jup.ka. a point towards the extremity. When truddhi are specially well constructed, the slope on the sides, instead of being uniform, exhibits three successive and slightly retreating gradations." ' Thus it will be seen that beyond their relative size, the outward aspect and position of the stairs, there is no difference between miraghs and truddhi. Truddhi are used by the peasantry as shelter and places to âfeto .... .-*_ say <*, Fig. 34. — Truddhu. Puglia. sleep in at sowing and harvest-time ; their fields, being some- times miles away from their homes, induce absences of several days and even weeks, during which they can hope for no better accommodation than what they will find in their truddhi. Hence the development of agglomerated nuraghs is not to be expected here, since they are but copies, on a reduced scale, of an older and larger type existing in the same district, and called " specchie," from the Latin " specula," watch-towers. Specchie are in such a state of dilapidation that their base lies buried under accumulated detritus, but what remains shows that they were stone-built structures, with truncated tops and outer facing of more careful make than the interior, albeit irregularly formed, 1 Fr. Lenormant, I. i. pp. 33, 34.