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THE COUNTRY HOUSE.
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cotes, tombs, and chapels. 1 The habitations on the slopes are
also partly excavated, and like the Armenian houses, they con
sist of two, three, or four apartments, formed with rough logs
of timber covered with earth : they are almost deprived of
light; and the principal portion of the interior space is allotted
to the animals.
Description of The Tchiftlik or farm-house of Anadoli consists of a larsre
a country i • i r • • i t . .
mansion. court-yard with a fountain m the centre : on three of its sides
are low buildings, such as stables or sheds for cattle, &c.; and,
on the fourth, are raised apartments, constituting the dwelling.
A roughly-constructed wooden stair-case leads to a long gal
lery or corridor, having a carved and painted ceiling supported
by wooden arabesque pillars, beyond which it projects about
18 inches. Opening into this corridor are several rooms, of
which the principal is the Salamlik or place appointed for the
transaction of business or the reception of guests ; and through
out this part of Asia Minor such apartments scarcely differ
from one another in plan or furniture. On entering, there is
a kind of passage or gallery about 4 feet broad, extending from
one side of the room to the other, with its floor on a lower
level than that of the rest of the apartment: wooden pannels,
with an architrave above, ornament the interior of the wall,
and the ceiling is painted. This space is appropriated to the
attendants, and to persons of an inferior class who have to
make application to the master of the house for advice or relief ;
here also the visitors leave their boots, shoes, and outer slip
pers, rather than be guilty of the greatest of all breaches of
good manners among the Turks, that of soiling the carpets. It
likewise contains, on one side, cupboards and recesses in the
wall for coffee-cups, bottles, water-jugs, basins, tobacco-pipes,
and the instruments for cleaning them ; whilst on the other
it is separated from the higher part of the room by a wooden
balustrade, through the centre of which there is a passage to
the place of honour. The latter is a platform, raised one, or
at most two, steps above the floor; it is covered with rich car-
Compare Mr. Ainsworth's Travels in Asia Minor, pp. 201-202, 208, &c.,
with Mr. W. J. Hamilton's Journey, Vol. VIII. Part II., pp. 148, 151.'