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centre of the building series every need, and keeps the house steady in high winds. The house so long occupied by Gov. Brooks, and in which died, is a newer specimen of the same model. The next fashion, introduced as an improvement upon these, was the broken or gambrel-roofed houses, many of which still remain. See a specimen at the end of this volume. These soon gave place to the present models, which are importation from distant ages and all civilized countries, not excepting Egypt and China. Roads. In the absence of town-records, we are obliged to resort to notices incidentally made in deeds, wills, and legislative enactments. They dignified a cow-path with the name of road. In the earliest years of the Medford plantation, there were but few people, and they had small occasion to travel. The laying-out of roads, therefore, was a secondary consideration, and the order of their location oftentimes conjectural in history. The Ford, ten rods west of the bridge, mean