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made very small; on Southampton Island I saw one in which not even the Eskimos could stand upright or lie outstretched on the platform.
Fig. 78 is a snow-house block inhabited by four families in March, 1922, at Itibdjeriang, on the east coast of Melville Peninsula. The smaller house is of the same type as that described in the foregoing, diameter 4.10 m. interior height 2.45 m, platform height 0.35 m; it is built of seven rows of blocks over the platform; the doorway forms a regular arch, 1,60 m high, 1.15 m wide; the left edge of the window is almost over the middle of the doorway; the window is a trapezoid slab of ice, 0.60 m high, 0.60 m wide at the bottom.
The large house is arranged differently, there being two main platforms and three (or four) lamp places; it is the usual type of house when intended for more than two families. The diameter is 5.60 m, height 3.15 m; the platform is 50 cm above the floor; the window 65 cm above the doorway, 55 × 70 cm; the doorway is arched.