It seems not improbable that the old cellars of Mandvi Kolivada were originally the colouring-ponds of the fishermen, which, as building progressed and crowding set in, were enclosed with tiles and brick and mortar and utilised as store-rooms.

I would have been very willing to forego the taskas, indeed, I am inclined to think any man well mightfor of all the great, awe-inspiring rooms in this house, the cellars are the hugest and weirdest.

The stoutest cellars were no protection if a shell struck above them.

Besides, as I reassured myself, the cellars were really the most unlikely places in which to come across anything dangerous; considering that they can be entered, only through a heavy oaken door, the key of which, I carry always on my person.

The cellar was a separate building, like an ice-house, and it answered for a refrigerator at this season, our moose-meat being kept there.

The power of modern artillery is so tremendous that a cellar might very well become a tomb if a shell fell on the building overhead.

The cellars of the villa overflow with edibles, and in the greenhouse is a most appetizing array of barrels, boxes, cans, and bottles, shipped here that our Sybarites might not sigh for the flesh-pots of home.

A piece of brick wall which the minister had built in contact with the wall of his yard, would indubitably cause such a rise in the water at the descent into the area of his cellar, that, in order to its protection in a moderate floodin a great one the cellar was always filledthe addition to its defense of two or three more rows of bricks would be required, carrying a correspondent diminution of air and light.

He said the strong cellar was the great hole where the river sank underground, and he brought me to a deep pool, where an otter hurried away under a grey boulder, and told me that many fish came up out of the dark water at early morning "to taste the fresh water coming down from the hills.

The commodore's cellar is as rich a rarity in its way as the Bernal collection, and, from the movement of the corks, I should imagine it was upon an equally large scale.

Therefore to give his wisdom scope, the doctor some time since announced the cellar of the building to be a hospital for dogs.