Note 320 — Chapter VII · THE TRIBAL SYSTEM (continued).
Reading edition
Compare Strabo's description of the Gallic houses, 'great houses, arched, constructed of planks and wicker and covered with a heavy thatched roof' (iv. c. iv. s. 3). Also for the early stake and wattle German houses, see Tacitus (Germania, xvi.), and the interesting section (Bk. i. s. 4) on the subject in Dr. Karl von Inama-Sternegg's Deutsche Wirthschaftsgeschichte. Leipzig, 1879.