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Title: Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ete (^Opus incertum; smallstones consolidated with cement), brick, or brick-shaped stones,and sometimes, particularly the facades, door-posts, or corner-pillars,of blocks of stone. The hasty and patched character of the con-struction is everywhere discernible, owing to the incorporation ofold walls in new buildings. The staircases that have been preservedprove that some of the houses must have possessed a second andperhaps also a third story. These upper portions have, with asingle exception (p. 146), been destroyed, owing to the fact thatthey projected from the superincumbent mass that buried and sopreserved the lower stories. The busiest streets may be identified by means of the shops(tabernae), which were let to merchants and shopkeepers, in the sameway as the groundfloors of the palazzi in Naples are occupied byshops at the present day. These shops were generally in no wayconnected with the back part of the house, and presented their Pianta normale di casa pompeiana(casa diPansa).
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