usual. The projecting windows on opposite sides of a street often nearly meet each other; almost entirely excluding the sun, and thus producing an agreeable coolness in the summer months...

the sun, and thus producing an agreeable coolness in the summer months.The most usual architectural style of the entrance of a private house in , is shown by the sketch here inserted...
close that it shuts out much of the light and sun, and screens the inmates of the house from the view of persons without, while at the same time it admits the air. They are generally of unpainted wood; but some few...

of the bare person to the cold of winter, or the scorching sun of summer; being accustomed to it from infancy; and the men may, if they choose, sleep in some of the mosques. In other respects, also...