16 WINTER FITTINGS. [October, 



direct heat of the Sylvester, would tend to preserve a 

 more equable and genial temperature. These two great 

 fires at the lower level would, it is manifest, materially 

 purify the air from the hold upwards ; and their funnels 

 should be so constructed as to carry off, by outer casings, 

 all superabundant heat to the upper condensers, and 

 thence horizontally, within six feet of the deck at the 

 hatchway ; but manifestly, not perpendicularly, and ex- 

 posed to intense cold, such perhaps as would not allow 

 vapour to ascend ! By such an adaptation we should 

 obtain fidl and healthy play for the lungs, and then even 

 a colder, but dry, atmosphere would not perhaps be ob- 

 jectionable. 



But as at present or hitherto arranged, the heat de- 

 rived from the expenditure is contemptible. Let the 

 scientific reader picture to himself the radiation from 

 the galley fire impeded by a tinned bulkhead or casing 

 to the fore-companion, distant but three feet and a half 

 from the fire ; further, that a constant volume of cold air 

 rushes down this companion, condensing in visible clouds 

 as it passes to the sides, not a very pleasant position 

 either for the unfortunates of the mess which is exposed 

 to the blast from that door, which, on deck, is merely 

 shielded by a tilt awning, old, threadbare, of last cruise, 

 and this frequently left open for ventilation ! Also no 

 radiation, and the steam arising from cooking, struggling 

 to escape by various channels, condensing in cavern-like 

 drippings from the beams. At present all this is de- 

 molished, and that hatchway sealed ! the radiation now 

 reaches where it should, and is sensibly felt by the 

 messes on ench side ; but the steam, where has it gone ? 



