What is also common enough in that country, it was surmounted by a Mirador, or "belvedere."
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
There was a Mirador or belvidere upon the roof-the same beside which Colonel Miranda and his American guest, just twelve months before, had stood smoking cigars.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
One day, just before noon, it was reported by one of the men that the saddle-horses could not be found, and my father, with his spy-glass in his hand, went out and ran up the wooden stairs to the Mirador or look-out constructed at the top of the big barn-like building used for storing wool.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson