Show snow SNOW slow HOUSES the wf winter er habitations of the tho Esqui maux nho visit churchill are built of 01 snow and judging from one constructed by augustus today to day they are very comfortable dwellings selected a spot oil on the river wit h re the tha snow allow was about two feet deep and sufficiently compact lie commenced by tracing out oue a circle twelve feet in fit diameter the itte snow enow in ill the interior of the tiie circle was next divided with willi a broad bro id knife habing a long handle into slabs three feet leet long six inches indies thick and two deep being heing the llie thickness of or the laye hyer r ol 01 snow these slabs were tenacious enough to admit of being moved about without breaking or even losing the sharpness of their angles tingles and then tilen had a t fight degree of curvature corresponding with of lne circle from which they were cut they were klied pilad upon each other exactly like courses of hewn stone around the circle which was traced out and care was taken to smooth the beds of the dlf dif frent rent courses with llie tile k knife nire and hud to cut them so as to give the wall a d slight I 1 iu LI inwards the dome was closed somewhat suddenly aud and flatly by cutting the upper slabs mabs in a wedge i form hista of the more shape of those hiow blow below the roof was about eight feet feel high and the tile last aperture was shut up by a small conical I 1 piece the whole was built froni irom within and each etch was cut so that it retained its po firtion without requiring support until another I 1 was placed beside it tiie the ligh lightness iness of the tile slabs greatly the tile operation when the building was covered in a little loose snow was thrown over it to close up every chink and a low door was cut through the he walls with the If latife tife A bed place was next formed and amrid neatly faced up with voth of which was then covered with a thin layer lier of fine blanches to prevent them being melted by the heat heit of the llie body at each end of lie the lle ile bed a pillow of snow was erected to place a lamp upon and lastly a porch was built before tile the door and a piece ol 01 clear ice lee was placed in it an aper aperture tuie tule cut in the wall wull for fok fo q a window the purity of the mat material erful of which tiie llie house was framed the elegance of its construction and the tile of its walls which transmitted a very peasant pleasant pea ped sunt sant light gave it un tin appearance far superior to a marble building and one might survey it with wilh feelings somewhat bomea hat akin to those these produced by the contemplation of a gre ci n tei tel tellie ile lle lie fused by phidias both are temples of if art inimitable in it their kinds hinds franklins journey to tile the polar sva sea |