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Journal: University of Toronto Press eBooks
Year: 2020

Most esteemed Mr. Cornies,You have been most obliging in sending me plans and accounts for construction of ordinary Nogai houses and I will send them on to the Third Department in the Ministry of State Domains for their consideration.I would not have believed that they could be built so cheaply.This will please our Minister.I look forward to seeing these new Nogai villages next spring and am especially interested in seeing how such fl at roofs, covered with earth, can keep off the rain.They caus