Along each side ran avenues of magnificent trees, whose branches met at a height of thirty feet over the centre.

Between these and the houses was a space reserved for the passage of light carriages exclusively.
The houses, unlike those in the country, were from two to four stories in height.
All private dwellings, however, were built, as in the country, around a square interior garden, and the windows, except those of the front rooms employed for business purposes, looked out upon this.

The space occupied, however, was of course much smaller than where ground was less precious, few dwellings having four chambers on the same floor and front.

The footway ran on the level of what we call the first story, over a part of the roof of the ground floor; and the business apartments were always the front chambers of the former, while the stores of the merchants were collected in a single warehouse occupying the whole of the ground front.

No attempt was made to exhibit them as on Earth.