If the proprietor happens to be a little more affluent, his hut may contain an oven of glazed earthenware, and two bed-rooms with boarded floors, the walls whitewashed, and the doors secured with locks. If he be a Jew, the house is still larger; the roof better, and covered with shingles instead of thatch; the windows are a degree wider; and if he be an innkeeper, there is a long stable, with a coach-entrance at each end, which serves for barn, stable and cow-house. The gentry give to their wooden house greater capacity, and a form a little more symmetrical. The walls within are perhaps stuccoed and washed with distemper colours, and externally plastered and whitewashed. The door of entrance occupies the centre and is covered with a rude porch, raised on four posts, and the front may contain three or four windows. Such are the elementary parts of a Polish village, and nothing under heaven can be more miserable, dirty and wretched, than the whole assemblage externally as well as internally. All the inns in Galicia are kept by Jews, and both these and the post-houses are always situated in the public squares, which occupy the centre of every town. These squares are also the market-places for horned cattle, and have never been cleansed since their first formation: hence they are absolute quagmires of filth, the putrid effluvia from which are almost insufferable. Happy, says Dr. Neale, is the traveller, the dimensions of whose carriage admit of his occupying it during the night! what abominations will he not escape! He relates, that though his companion and himself carried with them into these Jewish inns fur skins of their own to sleep on, yet the noisome smells from the damp earthen floors were frequently so powerful and disgusting as to keep them awake; and there were a thousand other nameless annoyances more easily imagined than described. From the centre of the roof of these houses is always suspended a large brass chandelier, with seven branches: this is the sabbath lamp, which is regularly lighted every Friday evening at sun-set, when all the fires are carefully extinguished, and not re-kindled till the same hour the next evening. Underneath it stands a long table soiled with grease, occupying the middle of the apartment; around it are ranged several wooden benches, with one or two rotten chairs, and a cushion stuffed with hay. In the huts of the peasants a sort of shovel, slung from the roof is loaded with tallow: a lock of flax is placed upon it, and being lighted serves for a lamp.