Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IF the door (or window) by which you enter faces THEN the side of the House On your left hand faces On your right hand faces Opposite to you faces N. E. w. s. N.N.E. E.S.E. W.N.W. S.S.W. N.E. S.E. N.W. S.W. E.N.E. S.S.E. N.N.W. W.S.W. E. S. N. w. E.S.E. S.S W. N.N.E. W.N.W. S.E. S.W. N.E. N.W. S.S.E. W.S.W. E.N.E. N.N.W. S. W. E. N. S.S.W. W.N.W. E.S.E. N.N.E. S.W. N.W. S.E. N.E. W.S.W. N.N.W. S.S.E. E.N.E. W. N. S. E. W.N.W. N.N.E. S.S.W. E.S.E. N.W. N.E. S.W. S.E. N.N.W. E.N.E. W.S.W. S.S.E. N.B.—In the actual mariner’s compass there are also sixteen intermediate points : e.g. between N. and N.N.E.—N. by E. ; between N.N.E. and N.E.—N.E. by N. But in practice such delicacy is neither necessary nor attainable. And, finally, as regards weather in general :— A northerly aspect is always bleak and cold, and almost always damp. An easterly aspect is cold, especially in the spring; but it is fairly dry, though a good deal of rainy weather comes at times from the south-east. A southerly aspect combines as much of warmth, dryness and sunshine, as the peculiarities of the climate will in any way allow. A westerly aspect is warm, but inclining to damp, and exposed to the most boisterous and rainy gales which, especially on the Channel coast, come almost always from the south-west