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Updated: May 5, 2025
The ridge-timber and purlins, though less heavy than the roof-plates, consist also of stout squared timbers, spliced to form beams continuous throughout the whole length of the house.
Outside it was stormy, and the roof-plates rattled from time to time; it was cool in the room, but not cold, for a stove was lit in a corner, where lay the watchman's belongings a great wolfskin fur-coat, a speaking trumpet, some flags, and a lantern with variously coloured glass sides.
The rafters are laid at an angle of about forty degrees and at intervals of eighteen inches; they are lashed to the ridge-timber and to the purlins, and lipped on to the roof-plates, beyond which they project about four feet to form an cave. Strong flat strips or laths are laid along the rafters parallel to the length of the house at intervals of about sixteen inches.
It had been necessary to place the outlets of the ventilating apparatus of the crab under the forward ends of some of the upper roof-plates.
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