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Show Only White Houses Built The Bermudas are a land of white houses. No other color is to be seen. They are all built of the nntlve white stone of coral formation, which underlies under-lies every foot of soil. When first quarried the stone is so soft thnt It may be cut with a knife, but it hardens hard-ens with exposure to the air. When a Bermudan wishes to build himself a house, all he has to do is to buy himself him-self a piece of land and scrape off a foot or two of soil to reach his quarry. By means of a saw the stone Is cut into pieces of the proper size. Thin flat slabs of the same material form the roof. The houses, even Including the roofs, are frequently whitewashed on the outside, and contrast strongly with tiie deep green verdure by which they are surrounded. There are no shanties, as there are in the rest of the world. 1 |