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TV. Defcriptlon of an improved Family Oven Invenfcd hy 

 Mr, S. Holmes, of Cajlle- court In the Strand^ London"^, 



X HE ovens in general nfe are made with flues, which 

 deftroy a great quantity of fire in its paflage through them, 

 and much trouble is required to keep them heated. The fire 

 which fhould be employed in roafting meat, is in a great 

 nieafurc diflipated in the flue of the common ovens, if ufed 

 at the time of roafling, or the common oven does not acquire 

 fufficicnt heat to anfvver the purpofe, unlefs much coal is 

 confumed. 



^' My invention confifts of a caft-iron oven, with a folid 

 piece of iron projecting from its fide into the fire, in which 

 this piece conftantly remains, and, becoming red hot, com- 

 municates fufficicnt heat for baking to the whole oven, and 

 even affifts the fire in roafting. 



*^ My oven keeps continually at a baking-heat, without 

 cxpence or trouble, as the common fire is fufficicnt for the 

 purpofe. The firft oven, which I made for experiment, 

 was fixed in my own houfe, for ufe, eighteen months ago, 

 and may be viewed at any tirhe "the Society think proper. 

 Others are alfo in ufe at Mr. Blackmore's, in Brompton; 

 Mr. Efdale's, the Banker, in Clapham ; Mr. Robinfori's, at 

 Kenfington ; Mr. Roe's, at Batterfea ; and the Rev. Mr. 

 Wife's, at Carlwood) all of which have even exceeded my 

 expectations,'* 



Mr. Holmes's letter to the Society of Arts, &c. of which 

 the above is an cxtraCl, is accompanied with fcveral certifi- 

 cates from different gentlemen, all agreeing in dating that 

 thefe ovens anfwer every purpofe for which they are intended. 

 We have fccn them in ufe, and think them preferable to any 

 oven made of iron we have before feen. 



rank in Champagne, are covered with an artificial ftratunr. formed by a 

 mixture of turf and rotten dung, common earth taken from the fides of 

 the hills, and fomerimcs of black and rotten fand. Thcfe kinds of earth 

 are carried to the vineyards all the year through, except in vintage time. 



* From the TranfaBions of the Society for the EtieouraganeyU of ArtSy 

 hlmufadureiy and Commerce ^ Vol. XV III, i8oq. 



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