Haec autem ex is, quae supra scripta sunt,originibus instituta esse possumus sic animadvertere, quod ad hunc diem nationibus exteris ex his rebus aedificia constituantur, uti Gallia, Hispania, Lusitania, Aquitania scandalis robusteis aut stramentis.
That these things were so practised from the beginnings above described we can observe, seeing that to this day buildings are constructed for foreign nations of these materials, as in Gaul, Spain, Portugal, Aquitaine, with oak shingles or thatch.
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